As I Wander Through the Early Snow
As I Wander Through the Early Snow - meaning Summary
Winter Longing and Nature
The speaker walks through an early snowfall and mixes sensory wonder with longing. Scenes of evening light and uncertain sounds create a dreamlike mood. Winter is addressed as a beloved whose frosted touch warms the speaker and awakens physical desire. Trees—birches and willows—are imagined with erotic intimacy, blurring reverence for nature with craving. The poem links landscape and appetite, making cold scenery a catalyst for personal yearning.
Read Complete AnalysesAs I wander through the early snow, Heart erupting with the lily's play, Evening with its azure-candled glow Fires a star above my questing way. Is it light or dark? I cannot tell. Is it cockerel singing or the breeze? Was it winter snow on fields that fell? Was it swans there, settled and at ease? You are dear to me, white winter's dress! Gentle frosted touch my blood now warms, Tantalizing me with urge to press 'Gainst the peeling birches' bosom-forms. Oh, the sappy glue of forest's grasp! Oh, the joy of snowy meadows' prize! Guile that causes me to want to clasp Once again the woody willows' thighs.
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