White Flounce
Posted in Leather Jackets on 09/05/2011 04:35 pm by admin
A Hard Frost - C. Day Lewis?
What's this poem about? What's the underlying message of this poem?
A frost came in the night and stole my word
And left this changeling for it - a precocious
Image of spring, too brilliant to be true
White lilac on the windowpane, each grass-blade
Furred like a catkin, maydrift loading the hedge.
The elms behind the house are elms no longer
But blossomers in crystal, stems of the mist
That hangs yet in the valley below, amorphous
As the blind tissue whence creation formed.
The sun looks out, and the fields blaze with diamonds.
Mockery spring, to lend this bridal gear
For a few hours to a raw country maid,
Then leave her all disconsolate with old fairings
Of aconite and snowdrop! No, not here
Amid this flounce and filigree of death
Is the real transformation scene in progress
But deep below where frost
Worrying the stiff clods unclenches their
Grip on the seed and lets our future breathe.
Imagine it's spring. One night however, an unexpected frost comes and covers everything. If you awaken before the sun melts it all and look outside you would see things similar to what the poet is describing to you here.
For instance, have you ever seen frost leave designs on a window? With a little imagination, you could see lilacs or blades of grass in it's whorls and turns.
Surely everyone has seen frost on grass? As the sun rises the frost sparkles on the grass like diamonds carelessy thrown around.
Have you ever looked at a Christmas card where it shows a wooded scene with all the trees touched with snow and sparkles? The poet compares that to a bridal gown - all white and sparkly.
He is saying he went to bed expecting a spring day the next morning and was surprised to awaken to a frost in its place! He admires the beauty of the frost and how it has changed the landscape, but he knows that the frost is temporary and the spring, with its promise of summer lies just beneath the frost.
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