Extra Credit: Weather Poetry

To the Thawing Wind

Come with rain. O loud Southwester!

Bring the singer, bring the nester;

Give the buried flower a dream;

make the settled snowbank steam;

Find the brown beneath the white;

But whate'er you do tonight,

bath my window, make it flow,

Melt it as the ice will go;

Melt the glass and leave the sticks

Like a hermit's crucifix;

Burst into my narrow stall;

Swing the picture on the wall;

Run the rattling pages o'er;

Scatter poems on the floor;

Turn the poet out of door.

-Robert Frost

This poem, To The Thawing Wind by Robert Frost definitely connects with weather in many ways. In this piece of poetry, weather is used to describe the setting and action. The poet uses his knowledge of weather to, as I said before, describe the place of the action, in a very creative way. Within this poem, the kind of weather discussed it rain, wind, snow, and sun(heat). Without the mention of weather, this poem would be completely different, because all of the imagery would be missing, making this poem truly boring. The literary techniques used in this poem in regards to weather are imagery, rhyming, and metaphors. This poem doesn't really further my knowledge about weather, because in this poem, weather is being used as description, not as information or scientifically.