Pound’s “Ancient Music” is the perfect poem for people feeling overwhelmed by snow.
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Skiddeth Bus and Sloppeth Us
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Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear?
With our first snowfall of the year, I am taken back to the snowfalls of my childhood–and to Dylan Thomas’s “Childhood in Wales.”
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Snow Days Open Cracks in Time
Wednesday Checking the east coast’s weather report from Slovenia, I see that it has been blanketed by snow, closing a number of schools and workplaces. I therefore repost this essay on the joys of a snow day. Reprinted from Feb. 9, 2010 An unusually heavy snowstorm has locked us into our homes these past few […]
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How to Celebrate a Winter Storm
Here’s a January poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that will cheer you up if you’re being currently battered.
Blizzard Jonas: How the Wind Doth Ramm!
In “Ancient Music” Ezra Pound voices what all those who were hit hard by the weekend’s Jonas Blizzard were thinking–and often saying.
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The Frolic Architecture of the Snow
Ralph Waldo Emerson sees a snow-storm as a master architect and “fierce artificer.”
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Why the Wealthy Get Wealthier
Thomas Piketty turns to Jane Austen and Honoré de Balzac to analyze “Capitalism in the 21st Century.”
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Captain Nemo Invades New England
Snowstorm Nemo set in conjunction with Joyce’s “The Dead” leads to some interesting reflections.
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First Snowfall, A Moment of Grace
For Mary Oliver, the season’s first snow fall raises existential questions and then answers them in its own way.
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