tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33282234.post3445792235964053862..comments2022-09-26T08:37:45.849+01:00Comments on be the serpent: Snowflake Man (dedicated to Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley)be the serpenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00741238317853342892noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33282234.post-73460322963425548062010-02-22T18:00:44.847+00:002010-02-22T18:00:44.847+00:00I love this one - and thanks for bringing "Sn...I love this one - and thanks for bringing "Snowflake" to our attention - I'd never heard of him and he sounds like a proper dude.<br /><br />There's something epiphanic about this and about snowflakes in general. This is particularly brought out in your epigram by Mason. <br />The snowflake - emphasised at the beginning as being so slight and juxtaposed with the heaviness of the heaven is then, in the hands of a great poet, turned into an agent of illumination, of a moment we could speak of as epiphany.<br /><br />It's wonderfully evocative and also a lovely epigraph. The poem is a series of continually inventive pictures of what seems a commonplace object, it's a portrait which becomes, as the poem moves forward, ever more evocative and magical.<br /><br />The sentences are graceful, the details beautifully observed, and the figurative language is perfectly appropriate to the larger theme of the poem.<br /><br />It should have been either a cold, foreboding set of images, or something done to death, but it's a warm, evocative elegy thanks to your talent for metaphoric language and for portraying sensory details with haunting precision.<br /><br />Sorry it took so long to comment.<br /><br />Love both the new poems <br /><br />xxxsteven.nash82https://www.blogger.com/profile/12170451589468557651noreply@blogger.com