Subtly and dexterously, Rosenberg plays around with words and employs their symbolic association to communicate how terrible an effect the war has on the world. As the flames of the war burst forth, nature is dressed in a winter’s gown and embellished with its impressions, “ice and frost and snow,” which cover the “Summer land” of South Africa, where Rosenberg is when the drums of the war are sounded in Europe, almost as if it is the winter of the whole world. Such a conceptualization foreshadows the universality of the war and warns of the imminent dire consequences, since winter corresponds in the LIFETIME IS A YEAR metaphor to death. The reiteration of the lexical items “snow,” “ice,” and “frost,” which evoke the metaphorical conception
