Figures of Speech:

• Metaphor: Comparing Yeats' body to a breaking city ("provinces of his body revolted").
• Personification: Giving human qualities to things like silence ("Silence invaded the suburbs").
• Simile: Comparing Yeats to ordinary people ("You were silly like us").
• Imagery: Vivid pictures like "snow disfigured the public statues" to show a cold, lifeless scene.
• Symbolism: Winter symbolizes death, and the "nightmare of the dark" symbolizes fear. 

Symbols:

• Winter – It symbolizes death, coldness, and the end of life, as Yeats dies on a dark, cold day.
• Frozen Brooks – They represent stillness and lifelessness, showing how everything stops after death.
• Snow on Statues – This shows how death can cover or hide what was once full of life and meaning.
• Silence – Silence symbolizes the end of a poet's voice, as Yeats' physical voice is gone with his death.
• Wolves and Forest – These symbolize the natural world that continues, untouched by human concerns like death.
• Words of a Dead Man – This represents how a poet’s words live on and change in the minds of readers after they die.
• Vineyard of the Curse – It shows how poetry can turn pain and suffering into something beautiful and lasting.

Main Message:

• Poetry lives on, even after the poet's death.