It’s midwinter and we’re just wondering where you stand. Is the Greatest Snow Poem…
1) Emily Dickinson, “It sifts from Leaden Sieves -”
2) Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
3) Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man”
4) Louis MacNeice, “Snow”
5) Snowgoons, “Black Snow”
or
6) The one you wrote in third grade, which Mom still keeps on the fridge?
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UPDATE: One of our editors has suggested a dark horse candidate, William Carlos Williams’ “Blizzard,” now added and annotated on the site.
Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man,” is the best. Although Frost’s is probably the most remembered.
“The Snow-Storm,” by Emerson?
Good calls, both.