Celebrate winter with faculty and students’ favorite seasonal poems

"I love it first for his careful, multi-sensory attention to details," Dr. Napiorkowska said.  "I know birches from the sidelines of ski slopes, but I could never depict their quiet glistening stillness so well.  I also love how the speaker loses himself in the middle of the poem, carried away by his own meditations, into which he says Truth "breaks in."  That "Truth" is so insistent that it will ...

"I have chosen this poem because of the vivid imagery and detailed descriptions of what is happening," Samantha said.  "I also love the sense of peace and stillness that the poem portrays." "An Old Man's Winter Night" All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on the pane in empty rooms. What kept his eyes from giving back the ga...

"I chose this poem because I liked how the author uses imagery to personify nature," Aitana said.  "I also liked how her poem portrays the change from winter to spring in the perspective of a flower coming back to life.  I found it interesting how the poem could be a representation of transformation from one big change to another.  I liked how the flower could represent us changing from one 'season'...

"Robert Louis Stevenson's "Winter-Time" is a beautiful, nostalgic winter poem that reminds me much of my childhood and the whimsical sights of snow coating the driveway on a frosty morning," Kate said.  "The poem provokes the feelings, sights, and smells associated with powdery snow days around the holidays.  I cannot help but reminisce the utopic snowy landscapes in which my siblings and I made...