Summary Of The Snow Man By Sunn Stevens

This poem brought me back to my home town and the wonders and beauty that it brings around winter time, and made me nostalgic with memories of past winters with my family and slightly saddened for those who have never seen the magical ability snow has. This poem reminded me that there are people who live in states where their change in seasons is not as noticeable, as the ones that I grew up with and have come to miss. Similar to many of the romantics, natures true beauty can transform the mundane into a work of art that would never have existed

“It was one of those bull’s-eyes in history, one of those points where everything comes together, where, if you were at that place at that time, you were part of something big. It meant that we weren’t going to get picked up, not on that day and maybe not ever” (Northrop 1). The mood created by Northrop in Trapped is displayed to the readers as negative vibe. Being trapped at a school in a blizzard is obviously not a good thing. So, as a visual representation to the teenagers situation, the snow is described negatively too. In the book Trapped, Michael Northrop uses the snow to symbolize dreadful times and loneliness.

The Use of Literary Devices in Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Robert Frost takes our imagination to a journey through wintertime with 
his two poems "Desert Places" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". These two poems reflect the beautiful scenery that is present in the snow covered woods and awakens us to new feelings. Even though these poems both have winter settings they contain very different tones. One has a feeling of depressing loneliness and the other a feeling of welcome solitude. They show how the same setting can have totally different impacts on a person depending on 
their mindset at the time. These poems are both made up of simple stanzas and diction but they are not straightforward poems.

Snow here could represent dullness or loneliness. Frost feels that everything or everyone around him are filled with loneliness, no excitement and everything seems to be the same. Line four in the poem says that “But a few weeds and stubble showing last.” Here it tells us that although dullness, emptiness, or loneliness covered almost everything around him, he could still see some life or excitement somewhere in between. Yet this small bits of life and excitement were nothing compared to the overwhelming emptiness. In the next couple of lines, Frost seems to have forgotten all about the weeds and stubble he saw and put his attention back to the empty, snow covered surroundings. He then looks at the woods near the field and that too have been covered in snow. He also mentioned that all the animals are covered in snow in their lairs. These two lines again emphasize how Frost feels. He knows that there are live around him, yet those life are also filled with emptiness. Soon he even realized that not only the surroundings that were filled with loneliness, but Frost himself are also in it as line eight says, “The loneliness includes me unawares.”

Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis is a science fiction novel that follows the life of Essie, a girl

“Those Winter Sundays”, by Robert Hayden, is a coming of age poem due to the remorse felt at the end of the poem. The poem follows the life of the narrator when he was young. It becomes clear that the poem is taking place in the past from the use of the word “Those” in the tittle. The tittle also sets up the tone and atmosphere: winter is typically a cold, dark, and unforgiving time of the year. The use of the straightforward tittle helps show what the piece is about.

“Those Winter Sundays” written by Robert Hayden, depicts the ungratefulness that a young boy has towards his hardworking father. Later in the poem, as he matures, he begins to realize everything his father has done for him, and his feelings suddenly change. Throughout the poem, Hayden uses numerous examples of imagery, personification, and foreshadowing to show how the speaker’s attitude regarding his father transforms from the perspective of a child to the perspective of an adult.

In the second stanza it is the semantic field of cold: ‘winter’, ‘ice’, ‘naked’, ‘snow’. All these lexical items give us a feeling of cold which evokes loneliness, unknown, fear.

In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the speaker is reflecting on his past with his father, but mainly the Sunday mornings he experienced during his childhood. Throughout the poem, there also happens to be a very dark and possibly even somber tone, which is shown by using several different types of literary devices. Hayden utilizes strong imagery supported by diction and substantial symbolism comprehensively. Furthermore, there are various examples of both alliteration and assonances. The poem does not rhyme and its meter has little to no order. Although the father labors diligently all day long, and he still manages to be a caring person in his son’s life. The poem’s main conflict comes from the son not realizing how good his father actually was to him until he was much older. When the speaker was a young boy, he regarded his father as a callous man due to his stern attitude and apparent lack of proper affection towards him. Now that the son is older, he discovers that even though his father did not express his love in words, he consistently did with his acts of kindness and selflessness.

Through and repetition, Robert Hayden successfully conveys a remorseful tone in his poem “Those Winter Sundays”. Alliterations illustrate the intensity of the speaker’s father’s laborious responsibilities. The father puts his clothes on “in the blueblack cold”, implicitly depicting the “blackblue” bruises covering his skin, as the color describes, or the bleak, frigid conditions he has to work under. This shows the strenuous effort the father exerted to support his family, even in unfavorable “weekday weather”, exhibiting the speaker’s present appreciation.

“Snow Bound”, a poem describing the joyous day for a boy who experienced snow for the first time. Author, John Greenleaf Whittier uses imagery perfectly. “The blue walls of the firmament, no cloud about, no earth below-a universe of sky and snow.” The author describes the setting of the poem by his use of rich and creative imagery.

Winter is a time of cold, when forests die and animals hide from the shrieking winds and biting cold. Winter is a time for survival against the odds. How apt that the speaker is struggling against the "lovely, dark and deep" woods to remember that he has "miles to go before [he] sleep[s]." The "easy wind" calls to him, and the "downy flake" beckons him to a comfortable sleep. If the speaker had paused on a bright summer day, the sleep might be just a short rest, but the poem is set on the "darkest evening of the year" while the "woods fill up with snow," and any rest taken in the "lovely, dark and deep" woods would result in the eternal sleep of death (474).

What I think is that I read and it has not told me yet what the blood in the snow is. At one point in the book there is a sentence that says “ There's no way I could have seen the blood in this the snow.” I would normally assume that this means that Someone has died or was beaten up brutally. but with this book I figured it was something else. I think it might have been the fact that Tim is albino he could have gotten injured, but it might be the fact that we don't know very much about Vanessa and she should have some mental disease or internal disease that we don't necessarily know about. I would guess it has to be either Tim, the main-ish character of this book who is albino and has lied to Vanessa about not going to Irving, Or it

In a poem like "Birches," Frost (so it seems to me) makes clear the influence of the New England transcendentalists on his thought. He imagines a boy climbing toward "heaven" even while he states categorically that earth's the proper place for love. And the beautiful woman in her peignoir in "Sunday Morning" may be skipping Mass but she is certainly enjoying her own green animal vitality and her coffee and orange. Even the narrator of "The Snow Man" who is aware of "the nothing that is" in the cold wind of winter is aware of "the frost and the boughs / Of the pine-trees crusted with snow" and notes "the junipers shagged with ice" and the "spruces rough in the distant glitter / Of the January sun." Steven finds beauty even in the desolation.