The speaker describes her earlier condition
impressionistically rather than graphically. Thus
winter
“should
have meaning for you”
(the
listener or the reader) who, we may presume, can understand or may even have experienced
cold feelings of despair. Considering existence from the standpoint of the personified
snowdrop plant, we are hearing the agonized speech of a person who has likened her
existence to snow: Life is brief like snow, and therefore the
speaker
“did
not expect to survive, … to waken
again.”
Because the snowdrop
has been allowed to live again, she states that she has resolved to face life, even
though she is still “afraid.” It might be interesting to think about the issue of why
she is afraid. Is she afraid because she does not know the future beyond the next cycle?
Or is she afraid more of living than of dying?
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