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?