The metaphor in the first stanza, that "life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly" if one lets go of one's dreams conveys the hopelessness of life without dreams. The defining characteristic of birds, for most of us, is the fact that they can fly. When we think about a bird that can no longer fly, it seems hard to imagine how it could survive. In other words, it's possible, but really, what kind of existence would that be? It would seem as though the bird cannot do the thing it was born to do. So would we be without our dreams.
Further, in this stanza, dreams are personified and described as being able to die. This is especially significant because death is so final. It sounds as though, if dreams are allowed to die, they can never be resurrected, that we must live merely a half-life from then on.
The metaphor in the second stanza, that "Life is a barren field / Frozen with snow," really conveys the lost potential of a life without dreams. To be barren means that nothing can grow, and if this is applied to one's life, it means that all one's potential is lost. Pursuing our dreams, then, is what makes us grow and develop, and in the absence of dreams, this growth becomes impossible.
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