The Morning - “Worries Of A Winter Walk”
Howells expounds, “The morning was extremely cold. It professed to be sunny, and there was really some sort of hard glitter in the air, which, so far from being tempered by this effulgence, seemed all the stonier for it. Blasts of frigid wind swept the streets, and buffeted each other in a fury of resentment when they met around the corners.” The imagery of the morning portrays a probable arctic winter; the draughtiness is unexceptional during the winter. Furthermore, the adjective ‘stonier’ accentuates omnipresent iciness. Also, the wind’s frostiness governs the morning for it is a superfluous, fundamental indicator of winter.
“Summer Isles” - “Summer Isles Of Eden”
The “summer isles” are a superlative, fascinating illusion: “It may be all an illusion of the map, where the Summer Islands glimmer a small and solitary little group of dots and wrinkles, remote from continental shores, with a straight line descending southeastwardly upon them, to show how sharp and swift the ship’s course is, but they seem so far and alien from my wonted place that it is as if I had slid down a steepy slant from the home-planet to a group of asteroids nebulous somewhere in middle space, and were resting there, still vibrant from the rush of the meteoric fall.”The beaming, quarantined islands mirror a distinctive “New-World Wilderness”. Its alienness indicates that ‘the Eden’ is principally segregated from the other lands. The ‘turquoise waters’ adjoining the islands are contributory of the vivacity which qualifies them to be an illusory Eden.
