EASY GUIDE- LEIGH HUNT's ON GETTING UPON COLD MORNINGS

INTRODUCTION:       

                             Everyone knows that it is pleasant to lie in bed on cold mornings. No one wants to get up at such an earlier time. But one gets up only on compulsion. Leigh Hunt deals with this familiar experience in a mock-serious way.

                          In the first part of his essay Hunt marks about the familiar hellish torture that one experiences on getting upon cold mornings; the reason behind this punishment of torture;to show how lazy people avoid early raising and how do active people are motivated to rise early.
                          In the second part he puts forward clever and deceptive arguments in favor of laziness by quoting many examples and facts.

HELLISH TORTURE:
               Everyone agrees that it is indeed very difficult to get out of bed on a cold morning. The sudden transition from warmth to cold is a 'hellish torture'. One gets up only on cumpulsion. He compares this torture to harpy-footed fairies dragging out lost souls out from fire and thrusting them into ice.

REASON BEHIND THIS HELLISH TORTURE:
                 Getting up on cold mornings and shaving are punishments given to mankind, for Adam and Eve had sinned against god. Before sinning they neither had snowy winters nor Adam was compelled to shave.

WAYS TO AVOID EARLY RAISING BY LAZY PEOPLE:
                  Hunt sets himself as an example to show the ways to avoid early rising. First of all he starts an inquiry about the cold weather outside to his servant who has the intention to wake him up. Next he commands to keep ready all the articles and dresses. Then he orders hot water for shaving and he finds excuse on saying that the water is too hot and so he needs some time for the water to cool down.Then at last he had no reasons to excuse and so he got up and was ready to shave.

ACTIVE PEOPLE's MOTIVATION:
                      Businessmen may get up early since they love money more than comfort. Some people who are slaves to daily routines or rather machines like barometer would get up early to maintain their pride.

ARGUMENT - SHAVING:
                He argues that shaving is a villainous custom since the cold razor is a contrast to warmth. Even Queen Eleanor divorced her husband King Louis of France because he had shaved his beard. So he states that beard adds impressive looks to man.

ARGUMENT- PLEASURE OF LATE RISING:
                He marks about the poet Thomson who accuses a man getting up late. Hunt says that even Thomson himself  used to get  up at noon thereby expressing his laziness. So no one could refuse the pleasure of late rising.

ARGUMENT-HEALTH:
              People say early rising is good for health. But Hunt says that there are no proofs for this, so far. But however sudden change in temperature, due to getting up from bed, may bring shock to the body and thereby affecting good health.

ARGUMENT- LONGEVITY OF LIFE:
                    If in case early rising increases longevity of life- is true, this does not mean that 'long things' are beautiful. For example, the longest street in London, Holborn, does not mean that it is beautiful because it is long. Likewise 'a short life with joys of late rising may be better than a long life with sufferings of early rising'

CONCLUSION:
                   Hunt has not neither moved the arguements to absurdity nor he has advised to rise late. He just brings out the 'pleasure in late rising'.