Two Travellers Perishing in Snow
poem 933
Two Travellers Perishing in Snow - meaning Summary
Consolation at Journey's End
The poem depicts two travelers dying in a snowy wood who comfort one another with the belief that Heaven contains what they leave behind. As speech falters and wind overtakes them, a sense of time and reverent love persists. Eventually an inscrutable force claims them, and those left on earth are somehow brought toward the same heavenly provision the dying had invoked. The tone blends consolation, mystery, and quiet ritual.
Read Complete AnalysesTwo Travellers perishing in Snow The Forests as they froze Together heard them strengthening Each other with the words That Heaven if Heaven must contain What Either left behind And then the cheer too solemn grew For language, and the wind Long steps across the features took That Love had touched the Morn With reverential Hyacinth The taleless Days went on Till Mystery impatient drew And those They left behind Led absent, were procured of Heaven As Those first furnished, said
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