Twelve Hokku on a Canadian Theme 6
Snow-shoes: like strong wings Bound on the feet of victors Conquering snow-fields.
Louise Morey Bowman
Snow-shoes: like strong wings Bound on the feet of victors Conquering snow-fields.
Louise Morey Bowman compares snowshoes to “strong wings” fastened onto the feet of people who set out across deep snow. Far from seeing winter as a hardship, the speaker turns it into a kind of triumph: the snowshoer becomes a victor, and the snowy landscape is something to be conquered.
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