Storm Fear

= WHEN the wind works against us in the dark,	=

= And pelts with snow	=

= The lowest chamber window on the east,	=

= And whispers with a sort of stifled bark,	=

= The beast,	        5 =

= ‘Come out! Come out!’—	=

= It costs no inward struggle not to go,	=

= Ah, no!	=

= I count our strength,	=

= Two and a child,	        10 =

= Those of us not asleep subdued to mark	=

= How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length,—	=

= How drifts are piled,	=

= Dooryard and road ungraded,	=

= Till even the comforting barn grows far away	        15 =

= And my heart owns a doubt	=

= Whether ’tis in us to arise with day	=

= And save ourselves unaided. =

= = '''Explication: A family is trapped inside their house during a violent snowstorm. The snow then begins to cover their windows and the doors. The narrator is fearful and on edge the whole poem. Winter represents aging and death and that is the season the poem is taking place in. Storms are associated with destruction and chaos. '''