It Sifts from Leaden Sieves
It Sifts from Leaden Sieves - meaning Summary
Snow Transforms Familiar Landscape
The poem describes snowfall as a quiet, pervasive force that remakes the landscape. Snow "sifts" and "powders" surfaces, smoothing roads, mountains, fences, and farm remnants into a uniform, white expanse. Human traces—stumps, stacks, harvest joints, and the labor that made them—are softened or made "recordless," while posts and rails take on delicate, animate touches before the snow stills everything. The tone is observant and slightly uncanny: nature’s covering both beautifies and erases, turning active scenes into a silent, anonymous tableau.
Read Complete Analyses311 It sifts from Leaden Sieves It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the Road It makes an Even Face Of Mountain, and of Plain Unbroken Forehead from the East Unto the East again It reaches to the Fence It wraps it Rail by Rail Till it is lost in Fleeces It deals Celestial Vail To Stump, and Stack and Stem A Summer’s empty Room Acres of Joints, where Harvests were, Recordless, but for them– It Ruffles Wrists of Posts As Ankles of a Queen Then stills its Artisans like Ghosts Denying they have been
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