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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
It's not necessarily a good idea to "twist Summer more". Just understand that Summer sees whatever increases biodensity as good. Summer's ideal world is tropical jungle from pole to pole.
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And add in that Summer is just as much about decay as it is growth. Summer embodies rotting meat, flies in decaying carcasses, infected wounds and so forth, just as much as it does forests and meadows. Summer is about life but overheating can kill as well.
Whereas Winter is clean, it'll kill you too, but it also preserves, freezes, purifies. A snow covered landscape can be bleak...or beautiful and restful. Snow can cover the scars of summer. Summer is activity, fulfilling and exciting perhaps but also exhausting and draining. Winter can be the time of calm rest, the bear hibernating, the armies encamped.
The 'themes' of Summer and Winter are
both a mix of beneficial and harmful, life and death. Even emotions. If Summer is passionate romantic love, and Winter is calm and cold...well, there are even times when romantic love becomes a destructive force, passionate hate is also of Summer. While Winter might embody the calm and peace that follows when the passions have faded.