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The text of the poem reflects the thoughts of a lone wagon driver (the narrator), on the night of the winter solstice, "the darkest evening of the year", pausing at dusk in his travel to watch snow falling in the woods. It ends with him reminding himself that, despite the loveliness of the view, "I have promises to keep, / And miles to go ...
Poems like "Toome," "Broagh," and "Anahorish" are rich with allusions to Irish language and topography, while "Shore Woman" and "Maighdean Mara" draw on Irish folklore and proverbs. [3] Heaney explained the importance of the Irish landscape in Wintering Out during an interview with literary critic Seamus Deane . [ 4 ]
Mitchell has written four books, Waddie's Whole Load, A Cowboy's Night Before Christmas, Lone Driftin' Rider and a 2015 compilation One Hundred Poems. He was chosen to write a poem describing the West for the 2002 Winter Olympics' Olympic Arts Festival. [2] He is a co-founder of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. [3]
Her poems also appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Ploughshares, The New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review, and the Atlantic Monthly. She began teaching poetry at such schools as Indian Valley Colleges, University of Arizona, Napa State, and Louisiana State University . [ 5 ]
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl is a long narrative poem by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier first published in 1866. The poem, presented as a series of stories told by a family amid a snowstorm, was extremely successful and popular in its time. The poem depicts a peaceful return to idealistic domesticity and rural life after the American Civil War.
Time on Fire (1961) is the debut collection of poems by Australian poet Thomas Shapcott.It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1961. [1]The collection includes 61 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources, although some are published here for the first time.
The poem is an expression of Stevens' perspectivism, leading from a relatively objective description of a winter scene to a relatively subjective emotional response (thinking of misery in the sound of the wind), to the final idea that the listener and the world itself are "nothing" apart from these perspectives. Stevens has the world look at ...
Three Poems for Demetrios Capetanakis (1954), for voice & piano; Poèmes pour la paix (1953–1956), for medium voice & strings; Five Poems of Walt Whitman (1957), for voice & piano; Two Poems of Theodore Roethke (1959) for voice & piano; King Midas (1961), cantata for voice(s) & piano; Four Poems of Tennyson (1963), for voice & piano