Analysis Of The Poem By A Hat Which Summer Can T Pierce

By looking at the title you would be able to tell what the poem is about, a widow, which is a woman who has lost her partner by death. The poem begins with a lady gardening but then it changes into something deeper. It writes about her past of losing her husband and that she will never be able to relive those moments. The themes of this poem is the lady’s sadness, loneliness and grief of losing someone important to her.

Peter Skrzynecki used personification in “by a hat which summer can’t pierce” since summer is known as a season of joy and laughter. It will make you imagine of a barrier that is blocking the happiness from getting through to this lady. Skrzynecki also used a simile in “fingering petals and buds as if they were the hem of a