Incrementalism In The Classic Of Poem Analysis

Incrementalism in the Classic of Poem’s
Many selections in the Classic of Poems make correspondences between the natural and human world. While this style is easily characterized by alternating stanzas, with the first taking place in the natural world, and the second in the human world, the different effects these correspondences can have vary greatly. In some selections the correlation and analogy made is very clear, with little left to be interpreted. However, in other poems the association created between the natural world and human world can serve a more ambiguous, yet important purpose in the interpretation of the literature. “First the Winds” is one such poem that uses natural imagery to accomplish something more important than simply setting a tone.

In “First the Winds,” the narrators slowly degrading relationship is intermixed with the imagery of an evolving storm, which profoundly effects the way the story is read.. When superimposed against the incremental degradation of the narrators own relationship, the incrementalism present in the growth of the storm adds a deeper level of complexity to the emotions of the poem and helps the reader to better understand and progress through the narrator’s failing …show more content…
This has one of the most drastic effects on the way the poem is read as a whole. By referencing the storm twice, an exaggerated-emphasis is placed on the immediacy of the storms arrival, and concurrently the relationships failure, as the poem has been foreshadowing. At this point in the poem, the storms overpowering presence, in conjunction with the narrator’s crippled emotional state, culminate in the most profound perception of the narrators emotional struggle, which would be all for not, without the visual aid that the incrementalism of the storm imagery