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New Hampshire is a 1923 poetry collection by Robert Frost, which won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [1]The book included several of Frost's most well-known poems, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", [2] "Nothing Gold Can Stay" [3] and "Fire and Ice". [4]
According to one of Frost's biographers, "Fire and Ice" was inspired by a passage in Canto 32 of Dante's Inferno, in which the worst offenders of hell (the traitors) are frozen in the ninth and lowest circle: "a lake so bound with ice, / It did not look like water, but like a glass...right clear / I saw, where sinners are preserved in ice."
Conventions that determine what might constitute line in poetry depend upon different constraints, aural characteristics or scripting conventions for any given language. On the whole, where relevant, a line is generally determined either by units of rhythm or repeating aural patterns in recitation that can also be marked by other features such as rhyme or alliteration, or by patterns of ...
Treasures of the Snow is a children's story book by Patricia St. John. [2] Originally published by CSSM in 1950, it has been reprinted over a dozen times by various publishers, including braille versions published by the Royal National Institute for the Blind in 1959 [ 3 ] and by the Queensland Braille Writing Association in 1996. [ 4 ]
Sanora Babb was born in Otoe territory in what is now Red Rock, Oklahoma. [7] While neither of her parents belonged to the Otoe tribe, living in a Native American community gave Babb a heightened sensitivity to the relationship between the land and its people. [8]
Bob McKenty is a poet noted for his mastery of light verse.. McKenty, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, began writing poems during the long daily commute from his home in Matawan, New Jersey to work at the Equitable Insurance Company in Manhattan.
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that is large enough to fall through the Earth's atmosphere as snow. [1] [2] [3] Snow appears white in color despite being made of clear ice. This is because the many small crystal facets of the snowflakes scatter the sunlight between them. [4]