"trees in ice"
Canadian poem - nature poetry
natural beauty of Canada, wild, dangerous
Vancouver is not like the rest of Canada - like New Zealand, mild, not too cold, not much, not much ice, not much of a winter, -2-5C, Instanbul
-30, -35C not uncommon
frostbite - when your skin freezes
harsh winter, ice, cold - beautiful in its own way
cold clear crisp days
Aurora Borealis - The Northern Lights
Aurora - light, Borealis - boreal (a) northern
a boreal forest - a forest in the north of Canada
segue - transition
do you like art, paintings?
famous Canadian painters - nature, Northern Ontario, lake districts
"The Group of Seven" 1920s-1930s
Rocky Mountains https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/canadian-rockies-places-to-visit-best-views
"trees in ice" trees covered in ice
cold, rains, -10C
superchilled rain, instantly freezes
covers everything in a layer of ice
"Silver Thaw" Nova Scotia term?
"trees in ice"
not traditional poem
- line lengths are not the same
- no regular stanzas
- no rhyme
modern poem - Modernist
free verse-
visual symbol of the tree bough weighed down with heavy snow
deciduous trees - lose their leaves, maple, elm, willow, oak
evergreen trees - keep their needles, pine, fir, cedar, spruce - Xmas trees
zero degrees Celsius, 32 degrees Fahrenheit
black ice - slippery ice, on road, highway, can't see it
"this glittering pain" personification, give human emotion to non-human things
Quebec ice storms 1998 - pictures and videos
nature can be dangerous - hiking in the NorthShore Mountains - Seymour, Grouse, Cypress
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