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Winter Stars : Sara Teasdale : : Winter Poems : :

Sara Teasdale, A Poet seated, large shawl draped over her, left hand on hip, 1920. (Photo by Jessie Tarbox Beals/The New York Historical Society/Getty Images) : : was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a wealthy family.As a young woman, grew , acquainted with Harriet Monroe and the literary circle around Poetry in Chicago.Teasdale wrote seven books of poetry centered on a woman’s changing perspectives on beauty, love, and death : The developments in her own life, from her experiences as a sheltered young woman in St. Louis, to those as a successful yet increasingly uneasy writer in New York City, to a depressed and disillusioned person who would commit suicide in 1933. : : She won the first Columbia Poetry Prize in 1918, a prize that would later be renamed the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. : : Her poetry include Sonnets to Duse, and Other Poems (1907); Helen of Troy, and Other Poems (1911); and Rivers to the Sea (1915). Reviewing the 1915 volume Rivers to the Sea, a New York Times Book Review contributor deemed the book “a little volume of joyous and unstudied song.” Such damningly faint praise followed Teasdale throughout her career; critics found her poetry “unsophisticated” but full of musical language and evocative emotion. A New York Times Book Review contributor, writing about the 1917 edition of Love Songs, asserted that “Miss Teasdale is first, last, and always a singer.” : : Teasdale married Ernst Filsinger in 1914 and moved to New York City in 1916. Love Song (1917) won both the Columbia Poetry Prize (now the Pulitzer) and the Poetry Society of America Prize. Her last three collections of poetry after Love Songs are generally thought to be her best: Flame and Shadow (1920), Dark of the Moon (1926), and Stars To-Night (1930). Dark of the Moon demonstrated her sensitivity. New York Times Book Review contributor Percy A. Hutchison. praised “the exquisite refinement of Sara Teasdale’s lyric poetry,” which “shows how near Sara Teasdale can come to art’s ultimate goals.” Marguerite Wilkinson, in the New York Times Book Review and Magazine, commented in 1920’s ‘Flame and Shadow’ that “Sara Teasdale has found a philosophy of life and death,” having “grown intellectually since the publication of her earlier books” and displaying a “growth in artistry.” Wilkinson concluded that ‘Flame and Shadow’ “is a book to read with reverence of joy.” : : After a divorce in 1929 Teasdale became semi-invalided & committed suicide in 1933.: : Reviewing the 1984 collection Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale, Choice contributor J. Overmyer wrote , ” simply stated thoughts are complex… and reverberate in the mind.” : : In the twenty-first century Teasdale has received attention from scholars such as Melissa Girard, who argues that aspects of Teasdale’s poetry have been neglected or overlooked, including her anti-war poetry from World War I.

If you want to learn just one constellation … this is a good one! It’s very easy to spot. We in the Northern Hemisphere see Orion the Hunter arcing across the southern sky on January evenings. Southern Hemisphere? Turn this chart upside-down, and look in your northern sky. : : : : Orion’s Belt consists of three medium-bright stars in a short, straight row at the Hunter’s waistline. The three medium-bright stars in a short, straight row at his waist. If you see any three equally bright stars in a row this evening, you’re probably looking at Orion. Want to be sure? There are two even brighter stars – one reddish and the other blue – on either side of the Belt stars. : : from mid-northern latitudes, you’ll find Orion in the southeast at early evening and shining high in the south by mid-to-late evening (around 9 to 10 p.m. local time, the time on your clock wherever you live). If you live at temperate latitudes south of the equator, you’ll see Orion high in your northern sky around that same hour. : : Notice the two brightest stars in Orion, Betelgeuse and Rigel. Rigel’s distance is approximately 773 light-years. The distance to Betelgeuse has been harder for scientists to determine. Its current estimate is about 724 light-years away, but uncertainties remain.: : Betelgeuse dimmed for a while in late 2019, generating a fair amount of excitement, because Betelgeuse is a star on the brink of a supernova. However, the star has since returned to its normal brightness. : : Trace the Belt of Orion and the Sword that hangs from his belt. If one of the stars in the Sword looks blurry to you, that’s because you’re actually seeing the Orion Nebula. If you use binoculars or a telescope to look at the Orion Nebula, you’ll start to see some shape in the gas and dust cloud. : : The stars of constellations aren’t physically related & gravitationally bound. : : : : : : : : : : : On December, January ( winter time ) and February evenings our evening sky faces away from the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Instead, we look toward our galaxy’s outskirts at this time of year. There are fewer stars between us and extragalactic space now. We’re also looking toward the spiral arm of the galaxy in which our sun resides – the Orion Arm – and toward some gigantic stars in this direction. These huge stars are relatively close to us, within our own galactic neighborhood and local spiral arm, so they look bright.

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Matthew Schmidt in the Catskill Mountains, New York, took this image of the Orion Nebula on November 5, 2021. Matthew wrote: “I was out in my driveway on the first clear cold night in New Kingston, NY. I had just dropped my camera and lens about 6 feet while shooting the Andromeda Galaxy and wanted to test its functionality, so I switched gears to the Orion Nebula. Turned out great, I think, and best of all, my camera and lens are still miraculously working.” Thank you, Matthew!

Orion at the Sea Shore. : : Kevan Hubbard captured this image of constellation Orion on January 17, 202(?), from Tynemouth, Northumberland, England. He wrote: “Orion over the ruined Tynemouth Abbey, which amazingly isn’t floodlit thus preserving the skies above it and the environment in general, and the light to the left is a little fishing boat.” Thank you, Kevan!

Winter Stars
BY SARA TEASDALE
I went out at night alone;
The young blood flowing beyond the sea
Seemed to have drenched my spirit’s wings- I bore my sorrow heavily.

But when I lifted up my head
From shadows shaken on the snow,
I saw Orion in the east
Burn steadily as long ago.

From windows in my father’s house,
Dreaming my dreams on winter nights,
I watched Orion as a girl
Above another city’s lights.

Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too,
The world’s heart breaks beneath its wars,
All things are changed, save in the east
The faithful beauty of the stars.
Source: Flame and Shadow (1920) : : poetryfoundation.org

Winter Stars’ by Sara Teasdale , is about change, aging, and the universe describing the nature of time and the sorrows. The Speaker gets over her sorrows , and thinks back , to a time when she walked the beach at night, and in the darkness , recalled her youthful fondness for the stars. Orion shone brightly in the sky then, just as it did , in her youth. ( Many Stars including Orion stars appear shine more brightly during Winter time. ) : : After a thoughtful, and calm return from the dreamy memoirs, and from the nostalgic contemplation : from her childhood through the years of youth , she , in the end, affirms that everything changes , except for the 🔯 Stars in the night sky.

” I went out at night alone;
The young blood flowing beyond the sea
Seemed to have drenched my spirit’s wings-
I bore my sorrow heavily.” : : Stanza 1 : : lines 1 To 4 : :

The Speaker’s dullard Remark in line 4 : ” I bore my sorrows heavily.” Suggests with a high wave flow of her youth time experience that is “beyond the sea” ( line 2 ) and gauges her as evoking boredom. Her experience is so sorrowful , heavy hearted and depressing that her “spirit’s wings” ( line 3 ) seemed as though they’d been drenched/ soaked in its waters. And then she alone at night, ( line 1 ) felt unable to lift her off the sea shore. There is no mention what has happened with her ! : : : :

“But when I lifted up my head
From shadows shaken on the snow,
I saw Orion in the east
Burn steadily as long ago.” : : Stanza 2 : : lines 5 To 8 : :

She caught light of the constellation “Orion in the east” ( line 7 ) when she lifted herself / viewing, from “shadows shaken on the snow”( line 6 )”. The constellation reminds her that time has progressed ; and that “Burn steadily as long ago.” : She knew that Sun like ) stars burn continuously ( in Universe ) The constellation does not change position in the sky throughout our life time. The “Orion” is still there exactly where she used to see it “as long ago”( line 8 ) when she was a child. Here, the reader comes to know that the Speaker is remembering the exact memoirs right from her past. : : : :

“From windows in my father’s house,
Dreaming my dreams on winter nights,
I watched Orion as a girl Above another city’s lights.” : : Stanza 3 : : lines 9 To 12 : :

She can recall as a girl standing at the “windows” in her father’s house, watching out “Orion” ( lines 9 & 11 ) ” Above another city’s lights” ( line 12 ) meaning many such observant / watchful / waking people ( marked by consciousness Or alertness ) are also looking out for the group of illuminating stars in the constellation (s) right above their heads. : : Alliteration: in the words : ” Dreaming” (my) “dreams” (“on winter nights” ) in line 2 suggests that it became important in her youthful dreams. She was happier then than she was on the beach that night as shown in these lines of peaceful calmly memoir that made her think of “another city’s lights” ( line 12 ) : : : :

“Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too,
The world’s heart breaks beneath its wars,
All things are changed, save in the east
The faithful beauty of the stars.” : : Stanza 4 : : lines 13 To 16 : :

Years ,Dreams , And Youth ( Progression from the childhood ) , that is , TIME CHANGES ( line 13 ) : : “The world’s heart breaks beneath its wars,” ( line 14 ) meaning , the heart’s position is ‘lower’ than with the “wars” among the people of different nations in the world : just ‘above’. : : Every Human Soul , with their feelings , intuitions , affections and courage are under constant threat of becoming broken hearted; And their likings, and an inwardly warmest Spirits in living, are having deep emotional pains , caused by the wars. : : Thus , ” All things are changed, ” ( line 15 ) : ” save in the east ” ( to complete with line 15 ) ” The faithful beauty of the stars. “( last line 16 ) : meaning the only thing that remains the same , is the faithful beauty of the 🔯🌟🔯🌟🔯 Stars. : : By ” The faithful beauty “the meaning conveyed is stars , seen in isolation, and /or in groups of Constellation (s) is or are, steadfast in affection and allegiance / binding commitments . The stars are constantly accurate , trustworthy and illuminating to provide with spiritual guidance and awareness to each of the human souls & living beings. : : : :

“Winter Stars” By Sara Teasdale : A Winter Poem Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India November 4 , 2022 : : : : કાર્તક સુદ અગિયારસ : : : :

Winter Trees : William Carlos Williams : : Winter Poems : :

**William Carlos Williams ( September 17 , 1883 , Rutherford, New Jersey – March 4 , 1963 , Died Rutherford New Jersey , aged 79 years. ) Notable works**
“This Is Just to Say” , “The Red Wheelbarrow”, “The great figure ” , Paterson, Spring and All : : Spouse : Florence Herman. A poet associated with Modernism & Imagist Movements. Alma Mater : University of Pennsylvania: : Writer & Physician ( Paediatrician & Medicines : Chief till his death With Passaic / Now St. Mary General Hospital ) A tribute plaque reads : “We walk the wards that Williams walked” : : : : : “No one believes that poetry can exist in his own life,” Williams said. “The purpose of an artist, whatever it is, is to take the life, whatever he sees, and to raise it up to an elevated position where it has dignity.”

A very big “liquid moon moves gently among the leaf less branches of a tree” : But , right branches appear long against the moon in the sky as seen on any full Moon night. In both the case , there is a ‘surrealism’: ( A 20 th Century Movement of Artists & Writers developing out of Dadaism : that uses fantastic images & incongruous juxtapositions in order to present unconscious thoughts and dreams. ) . Actually, in reality, Moon has equatorial radius of 1738/- Kms : 0.2725 of Earth’s & circumference is 10921 kms.The full moon is highest in the sky during winter and lowest during summer. The Moon does appear larger when close to the horizon, but this is a purely psychological effect, known as the Moon illusion, first described in the 7th century BC.

Winter Trees
BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed! 3
A liquid moon 4
moves gently among
the long branches. 6
Thus having prepared their buds 7
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold. 10

‘Winter Trees’ by William Carlos Williams is about the gaining and losing of leaves, ( comparing it to someone getting in and out of clothes) , about contrasted life and death , about light and darkness. The poet is watching trees as they enter their yearly dormant or quiescent state comparable with human’s sleep or shut – eye , which is periodical and natural / consciousness merely suspended ; and imbusing emotions for the contrast between leafless branches and blooming trees. happy to see them, personifying them to give them a friendly atmosphere just engaging with the same practices on changing magnitudes. : : : :

The trees have finished “attiring” and , “dis-attirning”, clothing, and taking off their clothes. They simply grow leaves to wear during the summer. During the winter, they shed their leaves, getting ready to sleep. ” All the complicated details.. . .. .are completed! “By Watching the trees change with the seasons makes the poet and the reader happy being in Nature. : : : :

And then , ” A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches.” : ( lines 4 , 5 , & 6 ) “A liquid” & “gently” are suggestive of smooth , slow and graceful. The marvelous and heavenly sight of moonlight produces the touchy, ethereal feelings. : : : :

” Thus having prepared their buds 7
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.” 10

A whole year is a tree’s day. It rises with spring, collecting its leaves.: ( having prepared their buds : line 7 ) Then, as “sure winter” approaches, it gets ready for bed. “The wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.” Falling of leaves is always a fascinating clues for the poets writing being in Nature. As E E Cummings also wrote : ( A Leaf Falls On Loneliness ) : A beautiful poem which can be remembered alongside this poem ” Winter Trees” By William Carlos Williams: : Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India November 3 , 2022 : : : : : : : :

“l(a” is a poem by E. E. Cummings. It is the first poem in his 1958 collection 95 Poems.”l(a” is arranged vertically in groups of one to five letters. When the text is laid out horizontally, it either reads as l(a leaf falls) oneliness —in other words, a leaf falls inserted between the first two letters of loneliness- or l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness, with a le af fa ll s between a l and one. : : In analyzing the poem, Robert DiYanni notes that the image of a single falling leaf is a common symbol for loneliness, and that this sense of loneliness is enhanced by the structure of the poem. He writes that the fragmentation of the words “illustrates visually the separation that is the primary cause of loneliness”. The fragmentation of the word loneliness is especially significant, since it highlights the fact that that word contains the word one. In addition, the isolated letter l can initially appear to be the numeral one. It creates the effect that the leaf is still one, or “oneliness” whole within itself, even after it is isolated from the tree. ( Robert DiYanni. Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. McGraw-Hill, 2003. 584.) : : Robert Scott Root-Bernstein observes that the overall shape of the poem resembles a 1 . ( Sparks of Genius. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001.) : : Probably inspired by the Japanese haiku , the poem suggests a link between the eternal concept of loneliness and the brief momentary motion of a falling leaf. : : 1 : I is the loneliest number / letter still strengthen ‘separation’ & ‘alieation’ as temporary associates of loneliness. : : Loneliness is viewable as universal whereas, falling of leaf is a local phenomenon observable with a nacked wide human eye. : : The Falling leaves suggest death, decline, the coming of winter: hopeless and melancholic images of weakness /infirmity and im – permanence / inevitability of ending/ dying. : : : : Ezra Pound’s ‘In a Station of the Metro’, another haiku-inspired poem, which has a fragile image of petals on the bough of a tree should also be discussed sometimes in our separate post on ‘Madhu Malti’ blog. : : : : : : : Form,Composers who have set this poem to music include : :

**Peter Schickele in “Dim/l(a” (1967), for SATB chorus a cappella.**
**Maurice Wright in “l(a” (1978), for SSA chorus, trumpet, violoncello and piano.**

Winter Rainbow : John Clare : : શિયાળું મેઘધનુષ્ય : : જ્હોન કલેર : અનુવાદ : વિ જયરાજ : : Winter Poems : :

**Winter rainbow over Edale valley, Derbyshire, UK**
A stunning and rare winter rainbow at sunrise in the Derbyshire high peak. We had incoming heavy snow, but the snow must have had water and ice mixed to create this snowbow. Peak District National park. UK.

**When the sunbeam shrinketh from its shrouds”& clouds of water vapour on the cold day of winter To create a beautiful “Winter Rainbow” 🌈 : Depicted Winter Sky & impacts on Humans :**

**Find your ” Winter Rainbow ” Moments & Get entranced by the Winter Sky & Rainbow colours. : Enjoy!? Happy Winter Days ! !**

Winter Rainbow : India : A Rainbow blessed the place on the Road Trip To go up towards Ooty in Nilgiri ( its Dodebetta peak highest with 8650 feet ) : A way from the foothill town of Mettuplayam Sky ( Coimbatore Rural Suburb , Kerala , S. India ) : Freezing temperatures of: – 0.2 C. December : Amidst The tantalizing scent from Eucalyptus, pines , and tall Cypress Trees permeated senses & souls : photo : Outlook traveller: outlookindia.com

**USA, Hawaii, Winter Waves at Ehukai Beach Park – stock photo**
**USA, Hawaii, Oahu, North Shore, winter waves and rainbow at Ehukai Beach Park**

**Mount Viniknka ,Rainbow Mountain In The Cusco Region Of Peru – stock photo**
**Photo taken in Cusco, Peru**

**Couple friends on a wooden canoe are paddling in water : Winter Rainbow: Mountain view of winter time lake in India.**

**Colorful Ice Skating – illustration**
**Vector silhouettes Large crowd of people ice skating :**

Winter is like a powerful woman with wickedness alongside good side, too. : ” Thou half enchantress, like to pictured sin ” : : Beautiful young woman with colorful dyed hair. : “And thy bright rainbow gilds the purple storm, I look entranced on thy painted clouds “

**John** **Clare ( 13 July 1793**
**Helpston, Northamptonshire, England — 20 May 1864 (aged 70)**
Northampton, Northamptonshire, England : : John Clare was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and his sorrows at its disruption.: His work underwent major re-evaluation in the late 20th century; he is now often seen as a major 19th-century poet. : His biographer Jonathan Bate called Clare “the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable. :In a foreword to the 2011 anthology The Poetry of Birds, the broadcaster and bird-watcher Tim Dee notes that Clare wrote about 147 species of British wild birds “without any technical kit whatsoever.

Winter Rainbow.
John Clare
Thou Winter, thou art keen, intensely keen;
Thy cutting frowns experience bids me know,
For in thy weather days and days I’ve been,
As grinning north-winds horribly did blow,
And pepper’d round my head their hail and snow:
Throughout thy reign ’tis mine each year to prove thee;
And, spite of every storm I’ve beetled in,
With all thy insults, Winter, I do love thee,
Thou half enchantress, like to pictur’d Sin!
Though many frowns thy sparing smiles deform,
Yet when thy sunbeam shrinketh from its shroud,
And thy bright rainbow gilds the purple storm,
I look entranced on thy painted cloud:
And what wild eye with nature’s beauties charm’d,
That hang enraptur’d o’er each ‘witching spell,
Can see thee, Winter, then, and not be warm’d
To breathe thy praise, and say, “I love thee well!”

— John Clare : :

” Winter Rainbow” By John Clare is about light & dark , Nature & hopes. Winter , here is like a powerful woman with wickedness alongside a good side. We find this poem charming ,as well as, glorifying although with some contempt/ insults. The power of Winter is in ” horribly blowing grinning north winds” ( line 4 ), in momentarily Parting of the clouds , and in coming down of sunbeam, which creates ” Rainbow”🌈 : : Hence, the Speaker says, : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ” And, spite of every storm I’ve beetled in, 7
With all thy insults, Winter, I do love thee, 8
Thou half enchantress, like to pictur’d Sin!
Though many frowns thy sparing smiles deform,
Yet when thy sunbeam shrinketh from its shroud, 11
And thy bright rainbow gilds the purple storm,
I look entranced on thy painted cloud: 13
And what wild eye with nature’s beauties charm’d,
That hang enraptur’d o’er each ‘witching spell, 15
Can see thee, Winter, then, and not be warm’d 16
To breathe thy praise, and say, “I love thee well!” : : ( lines From 7 To 17 )

Winter is to him half “enchantress,” a woman who entices him into sin. It is understood why for the people are against the season of winter. The light, life, and hope beat out the death-like shroud ( in relation to the weather ) of the cold winter season. These are the compensating features to save the season of winter , from dislikes & defects , to restoration with valuable honour ; which is , more elevated, when he stops & stares at the charming beauties of nature , and gets entranced. : “bright rainbow gilds the purple storm” ( line 12 ) : He wonders how anyone could possibly look up at this kind of winter sky and now be “warm’d” by the sight. ( line 16 ) : : No one, he thinks should “see thee, Winter” and not “breathe thy praise”. ( lines 16 & 17 ) : : This is an exalted magic of cloud of water vapour on a cold day of winter. : : The ” witching spell” ( line 15 ) : The Speaker is captivated by the delightful wonderful sight which put him in to trance : : ( saying : : ” I look entranced on thy painted clouds” line 13 ) : : The Speaker Concludes in the last line 17 : ” To breathe thy praise , and say I love thee well! ” : : : :

” Winter Rainbow” : By John Clare : A Winter Poem : : Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India November 2 , 2022 : : : : કાર્તક સુદ નોમ : : : : : : : : :

શિયાળું મેઘધનુષ્ય : જ્હોન ક્લેર : : : :
તું ટાઢી શીત , આકરો કસબ તારો , અત્યંત આકરો ;
તારી ક્રુદ્ધ વેધકતા મેં વેઠી જાણી છે,
કારણ કે તારા આફતઝાદા હવામાનના દિવસો અને દિવસો મેં ગાળ્યાં છે.
જેમ કે કચકચાટી બોલાવતાં ઉત્તરના વાયરા ત્રાસજનક રીતે ફૂંકાયા ( ત્યારે ) ,
અને મારા માથાની આસપાસ કરા અને બરફ વરસ્યાં. ( હતાં )
તારા અમલ દરમિયાન દરેક વર્ષે તારી કસોટી કરવાનું કામ મારું
અને, દરેક અંટસિયાં તોફાનની ઉપર બહાર અંદર, હું રહ્યો છું,
તારા બધા ઉગ્ર અનાદરો સાથે, ટાઢી શીત, તને હું પ્રેમ કરું છું.
તું અર્ધ જાદુગરણી, ચિત્રિત પાપ જેવી !
જોકે તારી અનેક વિચાર મુદ્રાઓ તારા મિતવ્યયી સ્મિતને મચડે છે.
તેમ છતાં જ્યારે તારા સૂર્યકિરણો તેના કફનમાંથી સંકોચાય છે,
અને તારું ચળકતું ઝબકતું મેઘધનુષ્ય જાંબલી કરા પર સોનેરી ગિલીટ ચઢાવે છે,
હું તારા રંગીન વાદળ પર મંત્રમુગ્ધ થઈને જોઉં છું :
અને કઈ પ્રક્ષુબ્ધ આંખ પ્રકૃતિની સુંદરતાથી મોહિત થઈ !
જે દરેક સંમોહક સૌંદર્ય પર આફરીન થઈને ટંગાયેલી છે,
તને,શિયાળાની ઋતુ ને જુવે છે અને પછી ગરમાયું ન થયું (!?)
તારા ગુણગાન ના પ્રાણ ભરવાં ,અને કહેવાં કે , “હું તને ખૂબ પ્રેમ કરું છું !”

— જ્હોન કલેર

( Translated into Gujarati by Jayaraj Vyas ) : Bengaluru , Karnataka India : December 15, 2025 .

Sun Halos ( 22-degree halos ) IN BENGALURU, June 2, 2021 : 15:00 PM, Visible over and hour. : Photo: Shivamurthy G Gurumath / India Today. : : According to Illinois University, Sun Halos is a prominent, circular, rainbow-coloured ring that appears around the Sun (or Moon). It occurs when sunlight passes through millions of hexagonal ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds. This phenomenon has been famously captured and shared by Bengaluru residents, particularly in May 2021. It is sometimes called a “winter halo” in colder regions, as ice crystals are more common then, but can occur in any season if conditions are right in the upper atmosphere.

Rainbow-like optical phenomena such as sun halos and cloud iridescence have been spotted in Bengaluru, including recently in 2025 during the current winter season and in previous years, often associated with specific weather conditions like light rain or high-altitude ice crystals. Bengaluru has also been known to experience rare and beautiful atmospheric optical phenomena.

The visibility of the Cloud Iridescence depends on being in the right place at the right time with the correct angle of observation. : A circumzenithal arc (sometimes known as Bravais’ arc) is a type of Halo.: Quite common as these types of clouds occur throughout the year, however we only sometimes see them as they are usually obscured by clouds underneath. The height, depth and position of the ice clouds must be right as the cloud needs and of the observer to be at a specific angle convex to the sun.

That small circle of rainbow next to the sun is not actually a rainbow. Well, it is a prism of light of sorts, but it occurs when sunlight mixes with cirrus or cirrostratus clouds and ice crystals. This phenomenon is called a ***SUNDOG*. : It is closely related to a sun halo. : They are very common throughout the winter months because of the cold air aloft that allows the freezing of moisture in the clouds.**

Snow Day : Billy Collins : ( 1 ) : : Poem Reading ( Illustrative Video ) : ( 2 ) : : Winter Poems : :

Billy Collins : b. 1941. : Dubbed “the most popular poet in America” by Bruce Weber in the New York Times, Billy Collins is famous for conversational, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky, tender, or profound observation on the everyday, reading and writing, and poetry itself. Collins was born in 1941 in New York City. He earned a BA from the College of the Holy Cross, and both an MA and PhD from the University of California-Riverside. In 1975 he cofounded the Mid-Atlantic Review with Michael Shannon. : : has taught at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence, and Lehman College, City University of New York, where he is a Distinguished Professor. : :Also, a faculty member at the State University of New York-Stonybrook. : : his readings regularly sell out, and he received a six-figure advance when he moved publishers in the late 1990s. He served two terms as the US poet laureate, from 2001-2003, was New York State poet laureate from 2004-2006, : : Collins was asked to write a poem commemorating the first anniversary of the fall of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on September 11. The reading was in front of a joint session of Congress held outside of Washington, DC. : : his fourth book, Questions about Angels (1991), that propelled him into the literary spotlight. : : Discussing Picnic, Lightning (1998) and its predecessor, The Art of Drowning (1995), John Taylor noted that Collins’s skillful, smooth style and inventive subject matter “helps us feel the mystery of being alive.” Taylor added: “Rarely has anyone written poems that appear so transparent on the surface yet become so ambiguous, thought-provoking, or simply wise once the reader has peered into the depths.” : : Taking off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes (2000) was the first Collins collection published outside the US.: : UK. Poet and critic Michael Donaghy called Collins a “rare amalgam of accessibility and intelligence,” and A.L. Kennedy described the volume as containing “great verse, moving, intelligent and darkly funny.” : : When Sailing Alone Around the Room was finally published, in 2001, it was met with enthusiastic reviews and brisk sales. : : Collins’s next books Nine Horses: Poems (2002), The Trouble with Poetry (2005), Ballistics (2008), Horoscopes for the Dead (2011), Aimless Love (2013), and The Rain in Portugal (2016) have continued to offer poems that mix humor with insight : : Poet-critic Richard Howard has said of Collins: “He has a remarkably American voice…that one recognizes immediately as being of the moment and yet has real validity besides, reaching very far into what verse can do.” : : Collins has described himself as “reader conscious”: “I have one reader in mind, someone who is in the room with me, and who I’m talking to, and I want to make sure I don’t talk too fast, or too glibly. Usually I try to create a hospitable tone at the beginning of a poem. Stepping from the title to the first lines is like stepping into a canoe. A lot of things can go wrong.” Collins further related: “I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can’t afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.” : : : :

**“Woke up to a revolution of snow.. .In the grandiose Silence Of The Snow “**

**Wide range of Readers remembering the Snow Day Of Their Childhood**

**Girls Whispering & Making A Secret Plot**

**Step Outside in your boots & a miniature jacket Or**

**Or Be A Willing Prisoner In The House & Make Pot Of Tea**

**Listening Hard what is closed & Which Small Queen is About To Be Brought Down**

https://youtu.be/H56ZXBXUl3g

Snow Day
BY BILLY COLLINS
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow,
its white flag waving over everything,
the landscape vanished,
not a single mouse to punctuate the blankness,
and beyond these windows

the government buildings smothered,
schools and libraries buried, the post office lost
under the noiseless drift,
the paths of trains softly blocked,
the world fallen under this falling.

In a while, I will put on some boots
and step out like someone walking in water,
and the dog will porpoise through the drifts,
and I will shake a laden branch
sending a cold shower down on us both.

But for now I am a willing prisoner in this house,
a sympathizer with the anarchic cause of snow.
I will make a pot of tea
and listen to the plastic radio on the counter,
as glad as anyone to hear the news

that the Kiddie Corner School is closed,
the Ding-Dong School, closed.
the All Aboard Children’s School, closed,
the Hi-Ho Nursery School, closed,
along with—some will be delighted to hear—

the Toadstool School, the Little School,
Little Sparrows Nursery School,
Little Stars Pre-School, Peas-and-Carrots Day School
the Tom Thumb Child Center, all closed,
and—clap your hands—the Peanuts Play School.

So this is where the children hide all day,
These are the nests where they letter and draw,
where they put on their bright miniature jackets,
all darting and climbing and sliding,
all but the few girls whispering by the fence.

And now I am listening hard
in the grandiose silence of the snow,
trying to hear what those three girls are plotting,
what riot is afoot,
which small queen is about to be brought down.
Billy Collins, “Snow Day” from Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (New York: Random House, 2001) : : : :
Source: Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Random House Inc., 2001) : From poetryfoundation.org For Educational purposes only. : : : :

Snow Day by Billy Collins
“Snow Day” by Billy Collins first appeared in the 2001 volume of The Best American Poetry and was published by Random House in New York. The poem describes the wonderful feeling of waking up on a snow day and realizing that school is canceled. It also deals with the excitement of playing outside; a common day experience during winter. Collins deals with the five senses to feel up the readers and their emotions. : :

Full of creativity and imagery, Collins writes “under the noiseless drift,” reminding outside of the morning Waking up after a big storm and hearing nothing but the wind ; everything seeming so peaceful covered in a blanket of snow. Nostalgic sense of smells & sound of wintery Snow Day connect us/ the readers, to the poem , on a personalized levels.The “Snow Day” talks about a situation that has appeared in most people’s lives. Common experience can trigger off the different memories . A “snow day” is positive because as a kid, everyone loved missing school to go play with their friends in the snow until they were too cold to bear it. & Afterwards confined in a cold house. Everyone likes to remember happier time. Snow days are so calm in the morning, everything looking uniform and perfect, unmoved and that to in a beautiful unemotional white color. Collins calls it “a revolution of snow,”“but for now , I am a willing prisoner in this house,” This is a situation that we are all familiar with during the snow falling or flooding incessant rains. This reference to a “willing prisoner” who wants to be confined and is surrendering to it. when he writes “and the dog will porpoise through the drifts.”: ( porpoise : gregarious mammal like a dog having a snout : elongated head & many teeth ) : With this line, Collins demonstrates a picture of his dog running through the snow as a “porpoise” would in the water. The verb “porpoise” as a verb, giving it the pictorial power to present the dog in the minds of the readers. This poem Amidst The Picturesque Snow Falling Like : : Grandiose Silence Of The Snow : All The Schools Closed, The Post Office Is Lost, The Paths Of Trains Are Softly Blocked, The Government Buildings Smothered : enveloped : The Landscapes Are Lost, The World Fallen Under The Falling of Snow, White Flag Waving Over Everything : : HAPPIER TIME RELATES to a wide range of readers , VERY SUCCESSFULLY. And then “Riot is afoot” : “Small Queen is About To Be Brought Down” : : You either Step Out in Boots & Miniature Jacket , Shake A Laden Branch & Have A Cold Shower Down , Whisper By The Fence if you are a girl , Listen To The Girl’s Plotting , Etc. ; OR Be A Willing Prisoner In The House : : Listen To The Plastic Radio /News , Make A Pot Of Tea & Be Sympathiser Of Anarchic Cause of Snow : : : : And Feel Free To Clap Your Hands

” Snow Day” By Bill Collins , A Winter Poem , Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India , November 1 , 2022 : : : : Happy Birthday To Ritvij : : કાર્તક સુદ આઠમ : : : : : : :

The Snow Man : Wallace Stevens : : Winter Poems : :

Wallace Stevens – 1879-1955 : : A Metaphysical Poet : Connections with Modernism: : Related Poet’s like : Robert Frost, Katherine Mansfield, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, W H Auden, Ezra pound: : Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879. He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate from 1897 to 1900. : : Stevens graduated with a degree from New York Law School in 1903 and was admitted to the bar& practiced law in New York City until 1916.: : he was also part of New York’s literary community.: He had several friends among the writers and painters in Greenwich Village, including William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and E. E. Cummings. In 1914, under the pseudonym “Peter Parasol,” he sent a group of poems under the title “Phases” to Harriet Monroe as entries for a war poem competition hosted by Poetry magazine. : : he became vice president in 1934 at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co.In Connecticut. : : His first book of poems, Harmonium (Alfred A. Knopf), published in 1923, exhibited the influences of both the English Romantics and the French Symbolists, and demonstrated a wholly original style and sensibility: exotic, whimsical, and infused with the light and color of an Impressionist painting. : : Stevens was concerned with the transformative power of the imagination. Composing poems on his way to and from the office and in the evenings. : receive widespread recognition until the publication of The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. : : Other major works include The Necessary Angel : a collection of essays on poetry; Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction ; The Man With the Blue Guitar (Alfred A. Knopf, 1937); and Ideas of Order : : Stevens died in Hartford, Connecticut on August 2, 1955.: Wallace Stevens is now considered one of the major American poets of the twentieth century,: To quote Stevens Remark : “The incessant job is to get into focus, not out of focus. Nietzsche is as perfect a means of getting out of focus as a little bit too much to drink.” (Letter from Wallace Stevens to Henry Church, December 8, 1942)
**The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Vintage Books, 1954.**

The Snow Man
Wallace Stevens : : : :

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; 3

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter 6

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves, 9

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place 12

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. 15

From Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens. : : Taken from poet’s.org Only For Educational purposes.

“The Snow Man” is a poem from Wallace Stevens’s first book of poetry, Harmonium, first published in the October 1921 issue of the journal Poetry. Wiki notes : : Sometimes classified as one of Stevens’ “poems of epistemology”, it can be read as an expression of the naturalistic skepticism that he absorbed from his friend and mentor George Santayana. There is something wintry about this insight, which Stevens captures in The Necessary Angel by writing, “The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.” Stevens in ‘Original Research’ Pg.169. : :

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 winter from a different point of view: Not thinking s harsh storm or snow/ ice as nuisance. He wants the world to look the opposite view at winter in a sense of optimism and beauty. He creates a difference between imagination and reality. See “Gubbinal” and “Nuances of a Theme by Williams” for comparisons. : : B.J. Leggett construes Stevens’s perspectivism as commitment to the principle that “instead of facts we have perspectives, none privileged over the others as truer or more nearly in accord with things as they are, although not for that reason all equal.”: : : :

” The Snow Man” is a metaphor and ” listens in the snow And nothing himself , beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.” ( Ending lines 13, 14, and 15 ), And about the world humans visualize as “nothing” if they do not have perspectives. The narrator describes the characteristics of the Snow Man who should not project their own, or the world’s problems, onto an empty landscape. He must see, why it is empty , without an attempted show of human emotions. The observer, during the winter should first face a cold when beholding the frost and the snow on the trees and bushes and must refuse his enticement for the mournful sound of the winter wind with misery ; His involving in the human feelings onto the wintry landscape. Then only as a detached observer he will barely see the nothingness , of the landscape for what it is, rather than , attaching ill – formed attitudes and emotions to th nature and will become ‘snowmen’.: :

A Cold , detached , and Objective Observer, is this real “Snow Man “Who is ‘Ego Free’. Our miseries on to the Snow & Wind is inexplicable. By becoming cool & objective , we turn in like a winter which is fathomable and grasping one ; or say , in the words of Stevens ‘perceivable’. Better going is : Winter can not be expected turn in on to miserable , sad , and lossy or lossless because these are mainly human experiences. It is understood that the winter can not be like us and we can be more like a winter. : : : :

“One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;” 3 : : Stanza 1. : : : :

To “have a mind of winter”( line 1 ) , one’s mind should not be affected by the arresting events , emotions , and pandemonium in the world. One must not be affected by the winter, but become part of it. ” the frost and the boughs ( firm branches ) Of the pine – trees crusted with snow;” ( lines 2 & 3 ) , the wintery entrants have to be regarded or appreciated to understand the cold winter of our world as it truly is. By attaining these qualities of winter , the Observer can become ” The Snow Man” : : : :

” And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter” 6 : : Stanza 2. : : : :

Juniper bush is Arabian shrub with small white flowers ( Genista raetam ) mentioned in old testament. But, the coniferous shrubs with berries like fleshy, spicy cones used in Europian cuisines and Gin flavour. And Juniper’s rough nap covered with hanging shags / trunks , here in this poem “with ice” ( line 5 ) are sought to lay eyes on , that is an attention is required to be drawn to these shrubs’ shaggedness which have acquired additional icy cold coverings. Seeing “The spruces” ( the second type of tree named in this poem ) “rough in the distant glitter.” ( line 6 ) : : By attaining for a long time of the coldness of these plants, the Observer in the winter can become ” The Snow Man” : : : :

Notes for the remaining Stanzas 3 , 4 , & 5 for the rest of the lines from 7 To 15 : Pending visit this post again later on to enjoy the appreciation of the poem. Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India October 31 , 2022 : : ::

Lines : The cold earth slept below : P B Shelley : : Winter Poems : :

Lines: The cold earth slept below
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY : ( 1792 – 1822 ) :
The cold earth slept below;
Above the cold sky shone;
And all around,
With a chilling sound,
From caves of ice and fields of snow
The breath of night like death did flow
Beneath the sinking moon.

The wintry hedge was black;
The green grass was not seen;
The birds did rest
On the bare thorn’s breast,
Whose roots, beside the pathway track,
Had bound their folds o’er many a crack
Which the frost had made between.

Thine eyes glow’d in the glare
Of the moon’s dying light;
As a fen-fire’s beam
On a sluggish stream
Gleams dimly—so the moon shone there,
And it yellow’d the strings of thy tangled hair,
That shook in the wind of night.

The moon made thy lips pale, beloved;
The wind made thy bosom chill;
The night did shed
On thy dear head
Its frozen dew, and thou didst lie
Where the bitter breath of the naked sky
Might visit thee at will.

” The cold earth slept below” by Percy Bysshe Shelley is about the freezing winter night and the discovery of a lover’s cold body. Death and fear are the themes of the poem.

The 1 St Sextain : : ” The cold earth slept below;

Above the cold sky shone;

And all around,

With a chilling sound,

From caves of ice and fields of snow

The breath of night like death did flow

Beneath the sinking moon. . : lines 1 To 6 : :

The Variety of images like the word ” cold” in the first two lines “cold earth” & “Cold sky” , “caves of ice”, ” fields of snow”, “chilling sound” and “death” : In the desolate freezing world’s landscape & also “the moon sinking”, all these are dark and danger to life. The “breath of night like death did flow Beneath the sinking moon.” in line 5 & 6 presents the fearful scene together with freezing landscape of cold winter night. The only light of descending and downward moon is also disappearing to lead the utterly black darkness. : : : :

The Second Sextain : : ” The wintry hedge was black;

The green grass was not seen;

The birds did rest

On the bare thorn’s breast,

Whose roots, beside the pathway track,

Had bound their folds o’er many a crack

Which the frost had made between. ” : : lines 7 To 12 : : ; :

The “hedge” is “black” and the “grass was not seen.” ( lines 1 & 2 ) due to the absence of light ; “The birds did rest

On the bare thorn’s breast, ” (lines 3 & 4 ) present the ‘lack of life’. : : the plant’s roots have started to take over the areas “beside the pathway track.” ( line 10 ): : The Speaker is observing the world on the same pathway which is cracked wherein “the roots of the hedge” are growing: “Which the frost had made between. ” ( line 12 ) : : Life appears as dropping down in this presentation. : : : :

The Third Sextain: : ” Thine eyes glow’d in the glare

Of the moon’s dying light;

As a fen-fire’s beam

On a sluggish stream

Gleams dimly—so the moon shone there,

And it yellow’d the strings of thy tangled hair,

That shook in the wind of night. ” : : lines 13 To 18 : : : :

“eyes glow’d in the glare / Of the moon’s dying light.” ( line 13 & 14 ) holds more light than the rest of the world.( Whose eyes ! Not mentioned here ) : : A “glare” in the eyes that outmatches the “moon’s…light.” : : A “fen-fire’s beam.” ( in line 15 ) should be understood as ‘swamp’which in the absence of light leads the traveller to death by drowning. : : “thy tangled hair.” ( in line 17 ) ” That shook in the wind of night. ” ( line 18 ) are suggestive of a living being he is looking at likely a woman with long, blonde hair. This is visible with the the light that comes from the person’s eyes which has drawn him off the path like a “fen-fire”.: : : :

The Fourth Sextain : : ”
The moon made thy lips pale, beloved;
The wind made thy bosom chill;
The night did shed
On thy dear head
Its frozen dew, and thou didst lie
Where the bitter breath of the naked sky
Might visit thee at will.” : : lines 19 To 24 : : : :

” The moon made thy lips pale, beloved; ” ( line 19 ) makes clear that she is a woman the Speaker loved and his lady love’s death. he mourns for. “The wind and night” caused her death or perhaps , the ” fen -fire” that drowned her. The Speaker compares “the frozen dew” with tears shed by the night. But, The Speaker is happy as shown in the end lines of the poem for she is under the nacked sky which with its bitter breath will visit her at will. : : : : : ” The wind made thy bosom chill;
The night did shed
On thy dear head
Its frozen dew, and thou didst lie
Where the bitter breath of the naked sky
Might visit thee at will.” ( lines 20 To 24 ) : : : :

“The cold earth slept below” by Percy Bysshe Shelley : : : : A Winter Poem : Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India October 30 , 2022 : : : : : : : :

The Snow Fairy : Claude Mckay : Sonnet : : Winter Poems : :

Claude McKay, (born September 15, 1889, Nairne Castle, Jamaica, British West Indies—died May 22, 1948, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular novel written by an American black to that time. : :Before going to the U.S. in 1912, he wrote two volumes of Jamaican dialect verse, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads (1912). : Read some of Claude McKay’s Poems like : : : : : ‘I Know My Soul,’ ‘Enslaved,’ and ‘If We Must Die.’ The latter is one of McKay’s best-known pieces. It is addressed to the Black community advocating for courage and the strength to fight oppression. In ‘Enslaved,’ the poet transforms sorrow and rage into a poem that explores segregation and oppression. ‘I Know My Soul’, a sonnet that discusses the importance of honesty.

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Throughout the afternoon I watched them there,
Snow-fairies falling, falling from the sky, 2
Whirling fantastic in the misty air,
Contending fierce for space supremacy. 4
And they flew down a mightier force at night,
As though in heaven there was revolt and riot, 6
And they, frail things had taken panic flight
Down to the calm earth seeking peace and quiet. 8
I went to bed and rose at early dawn
To see them huddled together in a heap, 10
Each merged into the other upon the lawn,
Worn out by the sharp struggle, fast asleep. 12
The sun shone brightly on them half the day,
By night they stealthily had stol’n away. 14

II

And suddenly my thoughts then turned to you
Who came to me upon a winter’s night, 2
When snow-sprites round my attic window flew,
Your hair disheveled, eyes aglow with light.4
My heart was like the weather when you came,
The wanton winds were blowing loud and long; 6
But you, with joy and passion all aflame,
You danced and sang a lilting summer song.8
I made room for you in my little bed,
Took covers from the closet fresh and warm,
A downful pillow for your scented head,
And lay down with you resting in my arm. 12
You went with Dawn. You left me ere the day,
The lonely actor of a dreamy play. 14

Source: Harlem Shadows (1922) : : From poetryfoundation.og : : : :

The Snow Fairy
BY CLAUDE MCKAY : : is a beautifully written poem in which the poet presents two sonnets with similar imagery. The first of the two sonnets focuses on a snowfall, something he compares to “snow-fairies” fighting for supremacy in the sky and then resting peacefully on the ground. The similar images are employed in both the Sonnets.The first of the two sonnets focuses on a snowfall, something he compares to “snow-fairies” fighting for supremacy in the sky and then resting peacefully on the ground. He uses personification throughout the piece, until the end when they’ve “gone,” or melted away. the first sonnet has led him to the thoughts he has in the second. He imagines “you,” an unknown listener and the speaker’s lover, coming to him and bringing warmth and summer into his home. Together, the two go to bed. When he wakes up, this person is gone as if they left with the dawn as a dream. : : The themes are of nature and dreams. : : : :

I ) : : The Speaker tells the listener, his lover, that he spent the afternoon “there” watching them. He was watching the “Snowflakes” Of Snow – Fairies fighting for Space in the sky in lines 3 & 4 : ” Whirling fantastic in the misty air,
Contending fierce for space supremacy.” : : Followed by line 5 , 6 , 7 & 8 : ” they flew down a mightier force at night,
As though in heaven there was revolt and riot,
And they, frail things had taken panic flight
Down to the calm earth seeking peace and quiet.” : : : : The fairies didn’t get involved in the “revolt & “riot” that had arisen in the “heaven”. We, as a reader, have no time to imagine , for the revolting rioters who would be differently strong, possibly robust & supernatural inhabitants of the heavenly kingdom of God , as by now , we’ve become more interested in “frail”fairies , may be weak bodied , humans like Fairies : peace loving fairies; apparently made visible, by the discription , depicted comparisons of juxtaposed ( side by side ) pictures. : : : : Hereafter , The Speaker speaks as “I” : : : : : : ” I went to bed and rose at early dawn
To see them huddled together in a heap,
Each merged into the other upon the lawn,
Worn out by the sharp struggle, fast asleep.” : ( In lines 9 , 10 , 11 , & 12 ) : : : : : : : : ”snow’ is referred to as ” them” : : : : Then , the snow melted as the warmer hours of the day progressed. As the lines 13 & 14 reveals: ” The sun shone brightly on them half the day,
By night they stealthily had stol’n away. ” : :

The ‘Synecdoche’ is a figure of speech substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one Or vice versa. : : : : : The word ” stol’n” in line 14 is synecdochical : : they moved stealthily; they advanced safely to another place : ” down to the calm earth” ( line 8 ) : : : : : : : : : They stole away ” ; “Throughout the afternoon.. . .. . whirling fantastic in the misty air” : ( line 1 & 3 ) : : : : :

II ) In Second Sonnet, there is a personalized dialogue of the Speaker with his lover. He made room for her in his little bed : ( lines 9 , 10 , 11 , & 12 ) : : ” I made room for you in my little bed,
Took covers from the closet fresh and warm,
A downful pillow for your scented head,
And lay down with you resting in my arm.” : : His thoughts turn to them “suddenly.”: : He remembers how his lover came to him. : : : : ” Your hair disheveled, eyes aglow with light.” ( line 4 ) : : There is a simile in line 5 : : in which he compares his heart to the “weather” when his lover came to him. It was filled with powerful emotions that blew like : : ” the wanton winds were blowing loud and long.” ( line 6 ) : : His lover was filled with “joy and passion all aflame.” ( line 7 ) : : when ” upon a winter’s night ( line 2 ) . . .. .
When snow-sprites round my attic window flew, : ( line 3 ) : : “My heart was like the weather when you came,” ( line 5 ) : :Then , all of a sudden the atmosphere of the poem feels warmer and more like summer. : : The Speaker tells his lover , : “You danced and sang a lilting summer song.” ( line 8 ) : : : : Then , In the morning, this person was gone, just like a dream. : : ” And lay down with you resting in my arm.
You went with Dawn. You left me ere the day,” : ( lines 12 , & 13 ) : : That Was ” The lonely actor of a dreamy play.” : ( line 14 ) : :::

The snowfall is supernal parade of “fairies” falling from the sky only to pile up on the ground, merge, and disappear as the day gets warmer: : This pictures are magical and beautiful in both the Sonnets: : A lovely cherished dream sequences for any star 🔯gazer’s fantacy : : Someone, Something , Wonderfull wintertime exploration of the oneiric world : : : : 🌟 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Snow Fairy : Claude Mckay : Sonnet : : Winter Poems : : Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India October 29 , 2022 : : : : : : : : : :

Horses : Pablo Neruda : : Winter Poems : :

9 Horses running in a herd on a snowy plain of the misty winter.: : The 9 th one is driven by a rider seen behind the 8 horses . Where is the 10 th horse , perhaps gone ahead of all & not seen in a picture.

Horses ~ Pablo Neruda

From the window I saw the horses.

I was in Berlin, in winter. The light
had no light, the sky had no heaven. 3

The air was white like wet bread. 4

And from my window a vacant arena, 5
bitten by the teeth of winter.

Suddenly driven out by a man,
ten horses surged through the mist.7

Like waves of fire, they flared forward 8
and to my eyes filled the whole world,
empty till then. Perfect, ablaze,
they were like ten gods with pure white hoofs,
with manes like a dream of salt.

Their rumps were worlds and oranges.

Their color was honey, amber, fire.

Their necks were towers
cut from the stone of pride,
and behind their transparent eyes
energy raged, like a prisoner.

There, in silence, at mid-day,
in that dirty, disordered winter,
those intense horses were the blood
the rhythm, the inciting treasure of life.

I looked. I looked and was reborn:
for there, unknowing, was the fountain,
the dance of gold, heaven
and the fire that lives in beauty.

I have forgotten that dark Berlin winter.

I will not forget the light of the horses.

Horses’ by Latin American Poet Pablo Neruda is , a beautiful poem , related to light, darkness, and hope amongst depressing sorrows. We are given to understand how the beautiful experience and its memory can inspire one to go past one’s ‘insipid humdum’ existence and change such person to come alive with becoming a new , attentive , and concerned individual. The bland monotony makes man dull. As , here in this poem , the Speaker sees the world as ” The light had no light, the sky had no heaven ” ( line 3 ) : Meaning a darkness around him in winter in Berlin. But, suddenly through the misty window, he sees “The Ten Horses driven out by a man surged.” ( line 6 & 7 ) : And he uttered,” Like waves of fire , they flared forward ” ( line 8 ) : : In the end of the poem , he changed over his stand with the lines, ” I have forgotten that dark Berlin winter. I will not forget the light of the horses.” : : The sight of the horses, transformed the speaker. He never thought it was this way possible and opens his eyes as he ever has before. This new “light” breaks through the winter darkness and switches him into a new kind of enlightenment. : : : :

Notes for each of the 29 lines pending visit this post again later on to enjoy the appreciation of the poem. ” Horses” A Winter Poem By Pablo Neruda : : Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India October 28 , 2022 : : : : : : : :

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening : Robert Frost : ( 1 ) : : Piano Song : Joanna Dong : SSA Arrangement/ Helen Chuan : ( 2 ) : : કોનાં આ વન : રોબર્ટ ફ્રોસ્ટ : ગુજરાતી ભાષા માં ભાવાનુવાદ : ઉમાશંકર જોશી : ( ૩ ) : : Winter Poems : :

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
BY ROBERT FROST
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem.: : Reproduced from Source: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (Library of America, 1995) : : From poetryfoundation.org : : : : For Educational purposes.: : : : : : : :

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1922, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume. Imagery, personification, and repetition are prominent in the work. In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Frost called it “my best bid for remembrance”.: : : : The poem reflects the thoughts of a lone wagon driver (the narrator), 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 before I sleep.: : : : “in June 1922 at his house in Shaftsbury, Vermont, while working on his long poem ,” “New Hampshire” , all through the night , Frost , went out to view the sunrise and suddenly got the idea for “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”. He wrote the new poem “about the snowy evening and the little horse as if I’d had a hallucination” in just “a few minutes without strain.” : : : : The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald who adopted the style from Hakim Omar Khayyam, the 12th-century Persian poet and mathematician. Each verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme, with the following verse’s A line rhyming with that verse’s B line, which is a chain rhyme. Overall, the rhyme scheme is AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD. : : : : A passage from this poem, was written on the casket of Late U S President John F Kennedy On November 23 , 1963 . Also At the funeral of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, on October 3, 2000, his eldest son, Justin, rephrased the last stanza of this poem in his eulogy: : Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, towards his later years, kept a book of Robert Frost close to him, even at his bedside table as he lay dying. One page of the book featured the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, and the last four lines were underlined. : : : :

The poem was set to music by Randall Thompson as part of Frostiana. : :

Frost called his two poems he wished to remember as his best , One : ” The Roads Not Taken” and , the Second : “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening”.

Frost passes the woods one evening during winter, and thinks that a man who owns the woods lives in the village. So the owner will not notice him stopping by to observe the snow falling upon the trees and ( his trespassing through his private property. )

His horse probably thinks it odd that the master/rider has chosen to stop here, with no farmhouse around. Meaning , they can’t bunk down for a night there! As if registering its disbelief, the horse shakes its harness-bell to remind with some cue for a supposedly mistake.Amidst silence the other sounds emerge from down like /soft wind and the slight sound of snowfall ( “the sweep Of easy wind and downy flakes” )

Frost concludes his narrations by telling us that, ” lovely, dark, and deep as the woods are” he has prior “promises” that he must “keep” / honour, so he must leave this inviting place of peace and tranquillity and stay and continue on his journey before he can sleep for the night. ( “And miles to go before I sleep” ) : : : : Throughout the poem the poet engages symbolically with “the woods”: :

They represent the two choices as offered by Nature. The speaker could head towards the woods or could return to an un – exciting earthly obligations of everyday he has promised to his world. The woods represent a freedom: an exemption from the duties and obligations; A liberation from the constraints of society, and conditions without an unending tasks , the everyday life demands on an average person. The beautiful and peaceful Natural World is inviting with this offer with a stoppage. But, the woods are also “dark and deep.” They also represent darkness and present the speaker with the option of “sleep,” which could also be leading to a death. : : : :

Frost’s Poem is a poem in Romanticism , but not like Wordsworthian flow with the stimulus in Nature . The Poet / His Speaker / Hero has , As W H Davies wrote it in “another poem from around this time” , ” No time to stand and stare ” At Nature , which is Modernist element of Poetry. In our changing time of 20 th as well as 21 St Century, the realistic world wears duty bound economy and Societal /Nation’s requirements , besides the legal obligations. Passing through one’s private property is though an inviting and seemingly non observant appearance , but equally illegal , making such person(s) having no permission, an intruder / trespasser. Encroaching on the right of others without a proper permission is , not allowed.: : : : : : : : :CLICK HERE In BELOW to enjoy the Piano 🎹 Song In Choir Fashion : : ::Vocals : Joanna Dong : : Rearrangement : Helen Chuan : : Originally arranged by SSA : : Piano 🎹 : Mei Sheum : : Bass : Brandon Wong : : Drum : Nathan Winterflood : : Video : MEO Works : : You Tube : February 2009 : : : : 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹 : https://youtu.be/bVXBFcnTn9U

“Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening” By Robert Frost : A Winter Poem / Snow poem : : Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India October 27 , 2022 : : : : : : : :

કોનાં આ વન

કોનાં આ વન, છે જ તો મારી જાણમાં,
છે જો કે ઘર તો ભલા એનું ગામમાં.
ન થંભતો આંહીં મને નિહાળશે
જોતો ભરાતાં વન આ હિમપાતમાં.

મારા નાના અશ્વને લાગતું હશે
વિચિત્ર રોકાણ આ, ન મકાન તો કશે.
વનો, થિજેલા વળી આ તળાવની
વચ્ચે તમિસ્રાભરી સાંજ શી લસે !

હલાવીને હય ઘંટડીઓ ધુરા તણી
જાણે પૂછે : નથી ને કંઈ ભૂલ આપની ?
સ્ફુરંત હળવા સપાટા હવાના
ને રેશમી હિમફર્ફર માત્રનો ધ્વનિ.

વનો છે શ્યામલ ગહરાં, મજાનાં,
પરંતુ મારે છે વચન પાળવાનાં.
સૂતાં પ્હેલાં ગાઉ કૈં કાપવાના,
સૂતાં પ્હેલાં ગાઉ કૈં કાપવાના.

— રોબર્ટ ફ્રોસ્ટ ( ૧૯૨૨ : પ્રકાશિત ૧૯૨૩ ) ગુજરાતી ભાષા માં ભાવાનુવાદ : ઉમાશંકર જોશી.

Wintering : Sylvia Plath : : Winter Poems : :

The Greek philosopher, Plato, who records Socrates’ teaching that poetry emanates from ‘honey-springs’ (honey being the food of the gods), and that the best poems are written by ‘divine dispensation’. So the poet produces poetry through inspiration, as a bee produces honey.

Wintering : : By Sylvia Plath
This is the easy time, there is nothing doing.
I have whirled the midwife’s extractor,
I have my honey,
Six jars of it,
Six cat’s eyes in the wine cellar,

Wintering in a dark without window
At the heart of the house
Next to the last tenant’s rancid jam
and the bottles of empty glitters–
Sir So-and-so’s gin.

This is the room I have never been in
This is the room I could never breathe in.
The black bunched in there like a bat,
No light
But the torch and its faint

Chinese yellow on appalling objects–
Black asininity. Decay.
Possession.
It is they who own me.
Neither cruel nor indifferent,

Only ignorant.
This is the time of hanging on for the bees–the bees
So slow I hardly know them,
Filing like soldiers
To the syrup tin

To make up for the honey I’ve taken.
Tate and Lyle keeps them going,
The refined snow.
It is Tate and Lyle they live on, instead of flowers.
They take it. The cold sets in.

Now they ball in a mass,
Black
Mind against all that white.
The smile of the snow is white.
It spreads itself out, a mile-long body of Meissen,

Into which, on warm days,
They can only carry their dead.
The bees are all women,
Maids and the long royal lady.
They have got rid of the men,

The blunt, clumsy stumblers, the boors.
Winter is for women–
The woman, still at her knitting,
At the cradle of Spanish walnut,
Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.

Will the hive survive, will the gladiolas
Succeed in banking their fires
To enter another year?
What will they taste of, the Christmas roses The bees are flying. They taste the spring.

‘Wintering’ is Sylvia Plath’s last poem in her Bee Sequence poems written in the early days of October 1962. She wrote all of these five poems in a state of turmoil and anger. Her marriage to English poet Ted Hughes had failed following his affair. This poem first appeared in the book Ariel, published 1965. The poem is all about survival, for the bees, the hive—the poet and her work. The speaker observes her own internal feelings, the season, the environment, and the domestic atmosphere – all in the hives of the bees. Sylvia both loved and hated her father Professor , Otto Plath, a German-speaking biologist / entomologist and author of Bumblebees and Their Ways (1934), who died when she was eight and, in her confusion, struggled to assert her identity. Her few poems , for example “Daddy”, are revisited here in “Wintering”, the speaker has come to her most important confrontation — with herself. Her work is completed and she is able to live with the natural rhythms of the seasons. She views her ‘wintering’ in a darkness without window: which is a decided part of a larger cycle, that involves hibernation, so that this is a poem about passivity and death. : : : : The Speaker knows that spring will follow this introspection and stillness and waiting ( as she said, “the easy time , nothing doing”) : The bees will ‘taste the spring’, and she concludes the Ariel collection on a note of hope, made possible by her recovery of her ‘self’. : : The 10 stanzas are quintains, that is five lines each , all unrhymed, though she also uses assonance and consonance The lines are of uneven length. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : The dark cellar like “room” is a metaphor for her inner self; the gothic imagery of fear that she must overcome; and the woman whose “body, a “bulb’ in the cold and too dumb to think”, will survive and ‘enter another year” : : Six Jars of Honey represents her marriage with Ted Hughes which did not survive more as she left him , his home in the town of Devon and started together with her school going children living in London in a small Flat which she referred in as ” room”. The new room is suffocating ( she ” could never breath”) may be, because , she was not accustomed to daily house chores of cooking , preparing for her children to go school , etc. She did not feel alive here. ( It was hard to find time for working on her poetry. : It was as she wrote elsewhere, that only in the very early morning hours of 4 To 5 that she had to get up to start her day.) Black colors mentioned refers her father , and/ or Ted as she felt as if they both were owning her making her life unhappy. “Smile of the snow” is white”, a sign of life and purity in contrast of ” black , Mind against all white ” trying to devour her life . The last line : ” The bees are flying. They taste the spring.” : meaning , she wanted the next year(s) to run through for her. Thus she wanted light. Unfortunately , she died the next year , February , 1963 suffocating herself with gas in that Same small house/ room. : : : :

Notes for each of the 10 stanzas Pending visit this post again later on to enjoy the appreciation of the poem. : : Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India October 26, 2022 : : : :