Snow : Louis MaCneice : : Winter Poems : :

Louis MaCneice : Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images: Anglo-Irish Poet , Playwright and BBC Radio writer producer : : Louis MacNeice was widely regarded in the 1930s as a junior member of the Auden-Spender-Day Lewis group: MacNeice and Stephen Spender were contemporaries and friends at Oxford, serving as joint editors of Oxford Poetry, 1929. MacNeice became a friend of W.H. Auden’s and collaborated with him on Letters from Iceland (1937). And in Modern Poetry (1938) : : MacNeice was raised among books and began writing poetry at the age of seven . In the four poems he contributed to Oxford Poetry, 1929 and his undergraduate collection, Blind Fireworks (1929)..Poems (1935) shows a real advance in his work.T.S. Eliot accepted the volume for Faber & Faber, MacNeice books published in 1938, I Crossed the Minch and Zoo. MacNeice’s new volume of poetry in the same year, The Earth Compels (1938), is a slim one, reflecting both his personal troubles and the time he had devoted to prose and drama over the past few years. Autumn Journal (1939) is the closest thing to a “major” poem in the MacNeice oeuvre. In Modern Poetry could be more than communication for him and even mystic experiences have their place in it. : : From 1941 until his death, Louis MacNeice was a man of the BBC : a scriptwriter and producer with the Features Department until 1961 and worked with it on a contract basis from then until his death. The most widely read of MacNeice’s work with BBC is his abridged translation of Goethe’s Faust, Parts I and II (1951). : : Unlikely that he will be upgraded to the status of a major poet, his reputation is certainly as high as that of any British poet of the 1930s other than Auden.

**Winter landscape / Snow as seen from the window with a green plant (but inside ) the richness of the room : Awaiting for 🌹🌹 (huge!) roses in flaring red blooms / oh not that Summary Spring ! !**

Snow
BY LOUIS MACNEICE
The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was 1
Spawning snow and pink roses against it 2
Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: 3
World is suddener than we fancy it. 4

World is crazier and more of it than we think, 5
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various. 8

And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world 9
Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes—
On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one’s hands— 11
There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses. 12
Louis MacNeice, “Snow” from The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice. Copyright © 1967 by Louis MacNeice. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates, Ltd.
Herein , reproduced from poetryfoundation.org : :
Source: The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice (Oxford University Press, 1967)

“Snow” A Winter Poem By Louis MacNeice is a remarkable poem about the snow falling outside and in more subtle way , it is a poem about being alive. “World is suddener than we fancy it” Line 4 is the most fancier expression. “Snow ” depicts the reality and the conversation between consciousness and subconsciousness working at the poetic levels. The thoughts , emotions and sensual gratification catches the suddener moments in a person’s worldview.( S)he can see the roses in flaring from a fire light ; can taste the sweet & sour tangerine; peel the pips ,( hard seeds of a fruit ) in mouth; hear the bursts & ripples from the fire ( which is felt ill will/ spiteful : line 10 ) : All these happen in the hightened stimulus of the sensations ( “On the tongue, on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one’s [h(er)/is] hands — ” ( line 11 ) : : : :

“Spawning ( may be because of UPWARDLY Origin Of ) Snow” and EARTHLY “Pink roses against it” ( bay window/ watch : line 2 ) together!? How!? Any Symbolism !? Are’nt these Symbolism, Supportive as well as clashing ( collateral and incompatible : line 3 )”There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses ” ( last line 12 ) : : A “bay window” shows you / makes the viewer’s “room” of existence “suddenly.. . rich !? ( Line 1 opening of the poem ), but also separates the viewer from his/her views. The conclusion in the conversations would be paradoxical but also intuitive , seemingly true or unacceptable !! Hoping for the ‘Separations’ & ‘Differentness’ could produce a newness. Determining from the worldview before a sensitive mindset even through the levels of subconsciousness as well as ever alerted awareness might lead a person suddenly to having a cognizable knowledge of what (s)he experiences and suddenly can ‘MAKE’ him or her ‘ALIVE’ in terms of touchable / perceptible reality : : : : ” The world is more crazier and more of it than we think” ( line 5 ) : : : :

“Snow” By Louis MacNeice , a Winter Poem : : Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India October 21 , 2022 : : : : : : : :

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