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- The dominant winter symbolism is that of sadness, inwardness, and personal struggle. We often see films and literature using winter as a backdrop during the sad moments in a character’s life. But there are other key symbols, like that of war and oppression, that are very common in epic stories, like Frozen, Game of Thrones, and Narnia.
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Jul 23, 2023 · Explore the various meanings and symbolisms that winter embodies in literature. Discover how the season represents themes such as death, decay, and rebirth, and how it can be used to reinforce storytelling.
Below, I’ll explore 11 key ways winter is used as a symbol in film and literature, with examples from influential texts like Narnia, Game of Thrones, and Battle of the Bulge. Winter Symbolism & Meanings 1. Sadness. Often, films and books will equate winter with a sad period in a protagonist’s life. We’re often pushed indoors during winter.
- From Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: At first she was unable to read. To begin with she was bothered by the bustle and movement; then, when the train started moving, she could not help listening to the noises; then the snow that beat against the left-hand window and stuck to the glass, and the sight of the conductor passing by, all bundled up and covered with snow on one side, and the talk about the terrible blizzard outside, distracted her attention.
- From Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler: So here I am walking along this empty surface that is the world. There is a wind grazing the ground, dragging with flurries of fine snow the last residue of the vanished world: a bunch of ripe grapes which seems just picked from the vine, an infant’s woolen bootee, a well-oiled hinge, a page that seems torn from a novel written in Spanish, with a woman’s name: Amaranta.
- From Ali Smith’s Winter: And here instead’s another version of what was happening that morning, as if from a novel in which Sophia is the kind of character she’d choose to be, prefer to be, a character in a much more classic sort of story, perfectly honed and comforting, about how sombre yet bright the major-symphony of winter is and how beautiful everything looks under a high frost, how every grassblade is enhanced and silvered into individual beauty by it, how even the dull tarmac of the roads, the paving under our feet, shines when the weather’s been cold enough and how something at the heart of us, at the heart of all our cold and frozen states, melts when we encounter a time of peace on earth, goodwill to all men; a story in which there is no room for severed heads; a work in which Sophia’s perfectly honed minor-symphony modesty and narrative decorum complement the story she’s in with the right kind of quiet wisdom-from-experience ageing-female status, making it a story that’s thoughtful, dignified, conventional in structure thank God, the kind of quality literary fiction where the slow drift of snow across the landscape is merciful, has a perfect muffling decorum of its own, snow falling to whiten, soften, blur and prettify even further a landscape where there are no heads divided from bodies hanging around in the air or anywhere, either new ones, from new atrocities or murders or terrorisms, or old ones, left over from old historic atrocities and murders and terrorisms and bequeathed to the future as if in old French Revolution baskets, their wickerwork brown with the old dried blood, placed on the doorsteps of the neat and central-heating-interactive houses of now with notes tied to the handles saying please look after this head thank you […]
- From Donna Tartt’s The Secret History: The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
Apr 27, 2019 · Winter Photo courtesy of Pixabay. Just as in the Narnia stories, Dickens uses winter to symbolise bad things in his A Christmas Carol. Here’s how he describes Ebenezer Scrooge: ‘The cold within him froze his own features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait…
Dec 16, 2015 · Here are ten of the best winter poems, from Thomas Hardy’s New Year meditation to Christina Rossetti’s classic Christmas carol. As you might expect, snow features heavily in many of these poems, so wrap up warm before you follow the links provided (on the title of each poem) and start reading.
Icy rivers and frozen tundras have inspired many great writers. Jane Ciabattari explores why low temperatures yield high imagination in literature.
Nov 3, 2020 · Winter is a starkly beautiful season. With frosty mornings, bright, crisp days and powdery snow it's easy to see how it has inspired poets throughout history.
