The Preludes

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Winter

You tossed a blanket from the bed, You lay upon your back, and waited; You dozed, and watched the night revealing The thousand sordid images Of which your soul was constituted; They flickered against the ceiling. And when all the world came back And the light crept up between the shutters And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, You had such a vision of the street As the street hardly understands; Sitting along the bed's edge, where You curled the papers from your hair, Or clasped the yellow soles of feet In the palms of both soiled hands.

This part is very easier because we already have many images and ideas about the situation in one and two. You should notice that in this part in line 10. You had such a vision of the street. Last time we were talking about the pronounces. Who is the persona? Do we have other characters? Line 10 gives us an evidence to link part 3 to part 2 to part 1.

It is one poem. All the parts should discuss the settling down of the winter evening. Now, we have such a vision of the street. The vision already happened in part 1. He goes to many experiences. Now, he has a vision of the street which means that it is the same persona addressing himself.

You curled the papers from your hair,

Some critics say that this proves to be a girl. No, it is not a girl. We had a lot of garbage and papers in part 1. So, because he was there in the street, his hair is dirty. Now, it is the time to clean himself.

You tossed a blanket from the bed,

It seems that in part 3, the persona has found a place. It...