Creative Writing Review

The poem, _Venal Equinox 2003,_written by Eleannor Welsh, PhD wrestles with humanities reaction to change and the nature of change. There are many types of change that effect “people” from global events far outside our everyday lives, to personal events that affect us in the most personal way possible, i.e. the passing of a loved one. Though out the poem, the author addresses their reaction to changing global and personal events. Also gripping with the acceptance and meaning of that change.   The poem is written set in a seemingly small town which could be anywhere, as a way to represent all of humanity. The author use nature as seasons and war as politics to describe an ever changing world. One seems to be unaffected by what that change has done to the author. There are themes of both life and death, which are example of that change.   Change in all its many forms is mainly unaffected by ourreaction to it. As described as winter in “Worst winter for eighty years” the winter is doesn’t know how bad the season is and it is unaffected by our perception of it. The winter isn’t any less harsh just because we perceive it that way. This hard   S. Trindle   winter is the change that affects all of us, and yet even though there is “not much sun”, the winter its self doesn’t care, it is indifferent. The “sun” described above represents light which in turn can be connected to happiness. When the author said “not much sun”, I discernedit to mean that happiness felt by the author in the past had been coldly snubbed out by this “hardest winter”. With that in mind, the “temperatures below freezing” and “snow lingering” could mean change from happier times to much more somber times now. There seems to be a small token of change when the author spoke of “the spring seed”. This spring seed seems to lend its self towards rebirth and the passing of the somber feelings caused by this “hardest winter”.   The second part of the poem strays away from the change represented by winter and... [continues]

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