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1316 Winter is good — his Hoar Delights

Winter is good — his Hoar Delights
Italic flavor yield
To Intellects inebriate
With Summer, or the World —
 
Generic as a Quarry
And hearty — as a Rose —
Invited with Asperity
But welcome when he goes.
 
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Winter is good

To our intellects inebriated by
Summer or worldly pleasures,
Winter is a good thing - His hoar delights -(sbjct) -produce (verb) more marked, emphatic( in bold) flavours.
 
Winter, as generic as a spring/quarry
and as hearty as a rose
is invited by us a bit reluctantly
but is welcome when it goes away.
 
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Hubert ClolusHubert Clolus
   السبت, 25/12/2021 - 15:52

Judith Farr (G) gives a helpful reading of this poem. Summer, as in poem 214,
inebriates our ‘Intellects’ with worldly pleasures, but Winter with its frosty ‘Delights’
has a more ‘Italic’ or emphatic character. As a genus Winter is ‘a Quarry’ or a source,
for without his frost and snow producing decay and mould, there would be no fresh
growth next spring. At the same time Winter’s heart is luckily as transient as the heart
of a rose, and, despite his delights and necessary functions, we still invite him to come
with a certain bitterness, and are glad when he goes.

ΚακομάζαληΚακομάζαλη    السبت, 25/12/2021 - 17:55

"But welcome when he goes"..only after winter leaves us we understand its value. At first he is invited with asperity, we barely open our door to him and we are angry he came ;)

Merry Christmas, Hubert Clolus!