First Snow
First Snow - meaning Summary
Journey Through First Snow
A rider moves through a freshly snowed landscape, noticing small vivid details—crows, a pine like a handkerchief, a solitary woodpecker—while the scene remains hushed and almost magical. The poem contrasts stillness and motion: the snow settles and "knits" the world quiet as the rider and highway keep unspooling forward. It evokes transient observation, the intimacy of a brief winter moment, and the continuity of travel through nature.
Read Complete AnalysesRiding; so quiet I can hear The hoofbeats falling on the snow. Only the grey crows career Noisily across the meadow. Under an unseen wizard's spell, The woods dream fairytale sleep. A pine I watch is lied up well Like a white handkerchief. And stooping like a crippled crone Bent over her stick half way Perched on the topmost point, alone, A woodpecker pecks away. I gallop on, in endless space. Snow falls, and softly knits its shawl. Ahead the highway bounds apace As ribbon unrolls from a ball.
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