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- Unlike autumn, which inspires poets to flout its discomforts, winter offers the lessons of acceptance or distraction.
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Dec 16, 2015 · Whether it’s falling snow or cold evenings, poets have often been drawn to the wintry season. Here are ten of the best winter poems, from Thomas Hardy’s New Year meditation to Christina Rossetti’s classic Christmas carol.
Poems about winter evoke the enchanting and transformative beauty of the coldest season. They paint vivid pictures of snow-laden landscapes, icy winds, and the stillness that pervades the world. These verses often contrast the harshness of winter and the cozy warmth found indoors.
Dec 22, 2009 · Unlike autumn, in whose complex and fertile imagery poets love to linger, winter, that stylized season, is often evoked as a single deft emblem in just a line or two—lines that can be cold and heavy with the press of everything not said.
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- A Poem for Every Winter Day. by Allie Esiri. This beautiful collection is full of verses that will transport you to sparkling winter scenes, with poems for Christmas, New Year's Eve and Valentine's Day.
- Selected Poems. by Gillian Clarke. Over the past four decades, Gillian Clarke's work has examined nature, womanhood, art, music, Welsh history – and always with the lyric and imagistic precision by which her poetry is instantly recognisable.
- A Poem for Every Day of the Year. by Allie Esiri. This beloved and bestselling collection compiled by Allie Esiri includes 366 magnificent poems, one for each day of the year.
- The Beautiful Librarians. by Sean O'Brien. Each poem in The Beautiful Librarians opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape, each drawn with Sean O'Brien's increasingly refined sense of tone, history and rhetorical assurance.
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All these poets use interesting imagery, but some poets particularly luxuriate in the different descriptions of wintry weather. The varied descriptions make up the poem – they are not used as illustrations or a setting for the main action. In ‘It sifts from Leaden Sieves’, Emily Dickinson takes pleasure in vividly describing the appearance of snow ...
Many poets use winter in a very metaphorical way, so the qualities of the season say something about the human lives in the poem. In Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet XCVII’, the absence of the beloved is directly compared with winter: “How like a winter hath my absence been/ From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!” Shakespeare then uses the other season...
The poets imagine all sorts of complex relationships between the human world and the natural world. Their human characters are sometimes distanced from their environment, and sometimes fully involved. In ‘Winter Psalm’, Richard Hoffman establishes the wintry scene by showing its impact on the human world: “snowplows/ and salt-trucks flashing yellow...
The same poets imagine winter in very different ways – compare Emily Dickinson’s ‘It sifts from Leaden Sieves’ with ‘Snow flakes’, or Shakespeare’s ‘When Daisies Pied’ with ‘Sonnet XCVII’. Once you’ve written one winter poem, why not try another piece that has a completely different atmosphere? We’d love to read them both!
This challenge is now closed for submissions, though you could always write a poem in response and send it off to one of the opportunities on our Poetry Opportunities Page. Have a look at these poems, selected for the challenge, for inspiration! Outfoxing the Seasonsby Rachel Martin Going Upby Ruby Mason Winter’s Sidelong Lightby Conor Whelan New Y...
Explore a list of winter poems that has excited readers over the ages from some of the great poets, from the classic to contemporary.
Winter, with its serene beauty and harsh realities, has inspired poets for centuries. From Robert Frost to Wallace Stevens, these famous poems capture the spirit of the season, painting vivid images and evoking contemplation.
