Friday, April 29, 2022

Richard Wilbur's "First Snow in Alsace"

https://www.ronnowpoetry.com/contents/wilbur/FirstSnow.html 

     I taught this in my college class in my War Poetry unit. The poem is fascinating and about much more than snow. Wilbur was a young soldier in WW2 when he wrote it.




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