The+Snowstorm

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=The Snowstorm= Ralph Waldo Emerson

ANNOUNCED by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveler stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
 * THE SNOW-STORM**

Come see the northwind's masonry. Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, nought cares he For number or proportion. Mockingly, On coop or kennel he hangs Parian wreaths; A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn; Fills up the farmer's lane from wall to wall, Maugre the farmer's sighs; and at the gate, A tapering turret overtops the work. And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone, Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of snow.


 * Emerson's attitude toward snow is that it gives people privacy, allows them to rest and enjoy life or "the hours" for a while.
 * He believes that as much as the snow is scary it is alos peaceful it gives privacy because it disables people from doing much.
 * Emerson views the snow as a building that falls upon everyone that protects everyone individually from everything outside of their home.
 * He refers to the snow being left behind when the sun comes out once again because it is as if the building had been destructed and ruined and there was no longer anything to protect.