1. . . .So Does Season

2. Winter. . .What Does It Mean?

3. Winter. . .What Does It Mean?
Old Age
Resentment
Death
Anger

4. Winter. . .What Does It Mean?
Ex:
“Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud, / And after summer evermore succeeds / Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; / So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.”
-Henry VI, Part II

5. Winter. . .What Does It Mean?
Ex:
“Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud, / And after summer evermore succeeds / Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; / So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.”
-Henry VI, Part II

6. Summer. . .What Does It Mean?
Adulthood
Romance
Fulfillment
Passion

7. Summer. . .What Does It Mean?
Ex:
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”
Sonnet 18

8. Summer. . .What Does It Mean?
Ex:
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”
VS.
“Shall I compare thee to a winter's day?”

9. Winter and Summer . . . Shakespeare’s King Lear
King Lear rages in his old man madness (in a winter storm)
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lovers escape to the woods
to sort out their romantic
difficulties
(on a midsummer night)

10. Winter and Summer . . . Shakespeare’s King Lear
King Lear rages in his old man madness (in a winter storm)
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lovers escape to the woods
to sort out their romantic
difficulties
(on a midsummer night)

11. Spring. . .What Does It Mean?
Childhood
Youth
Life
Birth

12. Spring. . .What Does It Mean?
Daisy Miller
What can you already tell about the character by the name?
Henry James' Daisy Miller

13. Spring. . .What Does It Mean?
Daisy Miller
What can you already tell about the character by the name?
She is young, fresh, and open
Henry James' Daisy Miller

14. Autumn. . .What Does It Mean?
Decline
Middle- Aged
Harvest
Tiredness

15. Autumn. . .What Does It Mean?
Robert Frost's “After Apple Picking”
Refers to a harvest
Agricultural or Personal
Personal
Rewards and Punishments
Gather harvest = tired

16. Seasons . . . Each have set of meanings
Most writers make changes to these meanings

17. Switching It Up . . . T.S. Elliot Wasteland
April is the “cruellest month”
Happier buried under winter snows