What does winter mean in literature?

Question

like a fox is trickery and spring is fertility but what is winter? im reading a story where it portrays winter or the coming of winter as somthing that stirs people up and makes them impatient

Answer 1

Cold and dark.

Answer 2

Winter Symbolism

Answer 3

winter symbolizes death, destruction, despondency, lowest state opposite of summer (full life) spring is more associated with regeneration, newness, youth. autumn relates to the onset of winter, leaves are turning yellow and falling of trees as in this Sonnet 73line:

In me you can see that time of year
When a few yellow leaves or none at all hang
On the branches, shaking against the cold,

Winter is cold, no life.


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Answer 4

Winter has come

Answer 5

Winter is the most dreaded season. It's usually cold, dark, wet... It's a hibernation period.

Answer 6

Winter in writing means death, cold, suffering, fun, boring etc

Answer 7

coldest season of the year, occurring between autumn and spring, extending in the Northern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox, and popularly considered to be constituted by December, January, and February.

Answer 8

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by the son of York.

There is a funny thing about symbolism. Freud said it best. "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." And sometimes winter is just winter. Pax -C

Answer 9

winter could be a metaphor for death, stagnation, hibernation

Answer 10

death