To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone, Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow. HELPS TO STUDY. Notes and Questions. A small island in the Aegean Sea called Paros is composed of a single mountain famous in ancient times for its white marble called Parian marble. Which of the pictures in the first ten lines do you like best? What are the "trumpets of the sky" How was the household affected by the storm? By what was the tumult caused? What is an artificer? Who is meant by the "fierce artificer''? What is the "tile" with which the poet imagines the "unseen quarry'' is furnished? Of what are the "white bastions' made? What does the use of the word "windward" add to the picture? Does such a detail add to the beauty of the poem, or does it detract from it? Who is described as "myriadhanded"? Why? What is the mockery in hanging "Parian wreaths' on a coop or kennel? What are these "Parian wreaths" in the poem? Explain how the world has become "all his (the north wind's) own."' What does the "mad wind's night-work' do for art? Biographical: John Townsend Trowbridge, 1827 is an Amer ican writer and lives in Cambridge. He was for a time one of the editors of "Our Young Folks' Magazine". Notes and Questions. What comparison does the poet make in the second stanza? the fourth? In What does the poet say in the fourth stanza the snowstorm does? |