We are yearly overwhelmed with the beauty of spring here in the South, but how I love the stark grey of the unleaved trees against a wintry sky. Cather says what a feel but have trouble expressing so compellingly here. Thank you for posting this one (even though it does seem to make me colder in the unnaturally cold weather this week!).
I do really love the Southern winter, with its softly colored grasses and gray stands of woods. But I am starting to look forward to the forsythia blooming. Note to self to start looking for daffodils coming up, too. February was always my dad's favorite month, because you get these glorious days, and they're so welcome (before the actual heat sets in).
Oh, yes, and the crocus -- we have daffodils and crocus in the backyard and they will be especially welcome this year! February and sometimes March are indeed good months, though March can sometimes be a bit too rainy for me; April is very iffy -- cold, hot, rainy, sunny, who knows! And by May the heat is setting in for sure . . . I would be enjoying our winter here in south TN much more right now if the temps were more ordinary; 8 and 9 degrees makes me wish I'd just stayed in Kansas already!
I would have said I'd never read this poem, or much of anything by Cather, but it seems familiar. I wonder if it was in some anthology. Anyway, I like it a lot. Especially the spring part.
We are yearly overwhelmed with the beauty of spring here in the South, but how I love the stark grey of the unleaved trees against a wintry sky. Cather says what a feel but have trouble expressing so compellingly here. Thank you for posting this one (even though it does seem to make me colder in the unnaturally cold weather this week!).
I do really love the Southern winter, with its softly colored grasses and gray stands of woods. But I am starting to look forward to the forsythia blooming. Note to self to start looking for daffodils coming up, too. February was always my dad's favorite month, because you get these glorious days, and they're so welcome (before the actual heat sets in).
Oh, yes, and the crocus -- we have daffodils and crocus in the backyard and they will be especially welcome this year! February and sometimes March are indeed good months, though March can sometimes be a bit too rainy for me; April is very iffy -- cold, hot, rainy, sunny, who knows! And by May the heat is setting in for sure . . . I would be enjoying our winter here in south TN much more right now if the temps were more ordinary; 8 and 9 degrees makes me wish I'd just stayed in Kansas already!
I would have said I'd never read this poem, or much of anything by Cather, but it seems familiar. I wonder if it was in some anthology. Anyway, I like it a lot. Especially the spring part.
I loved the poem but can’t be trusted, given my passion for Cather. She was always interested in what outlasted time and what didn’t.
So true! It can be argued that woodlands are most beautiful in the winter. And the bones of the land are more visible. They too speak Beauty.
So nice to learn that Willa Cather--a longtime favorite--also wrote poetry. Thank you for this!