Question

In Snow-Bound, where does the speaker’s sense of hope come from?

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Answer:

Although John Greenleaf Whittier called Snow-Bound an “idyl,” the term is not accurate in the sense of what that word means in classical literature. The poem centers on an admiring and pleasant depiction of simple country life, in the tradition of the pastoral, but it does not present that view of rustic life from a detached, aristocratic viewpoint. Rather, the speaker’s perspective remains rooted in the values of the community he portrays, even as he acknowledges that the persons and scenes he describes are gone. Similarly, the poem’s character as a pastoral elegy is qualified by the speaker’s hope. Nostalgia for a former way of life pervades the poem, but the future, in particular the future after abolition of slavery, is imagined as a bright improvement on the past. Two major themes related to this optimistic mood figure in the poem. One of these is the image of an inner light encircled by darkness, and the other is a sense of continuity with the past.

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