Winter Frontal Lobe Analysis

In “Winter, Frontal Lobe” by Brecken Hanock, the speaker has two meanings that are simultaneously occurring, a literal and a metaphorical (which can be supported by the Winter and frontal lobe of the title). In the literal meaning the speaker describes an ice fishing trip he/she goes on with his/her dad. While “Dad chops a hole.” (1) in the ice where it was dark because the water would be the deepest. The speaker can hear the “Tunk. Dark hair blighted \ by snow bees, his axe” (2-3). “Tunk” is an onomatopoeia for the sound that the axe makes when it hits the ice. The "snow bees” are small pieces of ice flying off father’s axe into his dark hair. The flying ice chips sting the flesh like bee stings, as it hits. As the father is “Trepanning the tran’s top”(4) the speaker’s uses an alliteration of the “T” sound which is used to emphasize the tapping sound that the axe would make as it hit the transparent top of the ice. As they try to get “Beneath what’s frozen \ slighted bodies blob up \ from the din. Kraken, Leviathan”(5-7).
is revealed. Rather then “Dad [chopping] a hole.” (1) in the ice, the speaker refers to the father chopping a hole in the skull of his/her mother’s skull. The “Tunk”(2) of the axe hitting the ice becomes the sound of it hitting the skull of the speakers mother. The speaker transforms the “snow bees” (3) of ice to pieces of the skull that the speaker imagines flying.
“Trepanning the tran’s top” (4) is transformed into a trepanning procedure where a hole was drilled into the skull like the hole drilled into the ice. This procedure was used with the understanding by doing this, it would allow the monsters or demons out that is causing the mental illness. Just as the speaker wishes to pull a Kraken or a Leviathan (Giant fish) from the water, he/she wished to pull the monster or demon from his/her mother that causes the mental