hear the cold splintering, breaking.


Hayden uses synesthesia again here to describe the cold.  This time, what sense does he use to describe the feeling of cold? (Hint: "hear the cold . . .")

Now you can not only feel and see the cold, but you can hear it.  The author has created a 3-D setting for this poem

What kinds of images do the words "splintering" and "breaking" bring to your mind?  

If you were using these words to describe a relationship, what would that relationship be like?