The Pasture Field

When spring has burned The ragged robe of winter, stitch by stitch, And deftly turned To moving melody the wayside ditch, The pale-green pasture field behind the bars5 Is goldened o'er with dandelion stars. When summer keeps Quick pace with sinewy white-shirted arms, And daily steeps In sunny splendour all her spreading farms,10 The pasture field is flooded foamy white With daisy faces looking at the light.
When autumn lays Her golden wealth upon the forest floor, And all the days15 Look backward at the days that went before, A pensive company, the asters, stand, Their blue eyes brightening the pasture land.
When winter lifts A sounding trumpet to his strenuous lips,20 And shapes the drifts To curves of transient loveliness, he slips Upon the pasture's ineffectual brown A swan-soft vestment delicate as down.

—Ethelwyn Wetherald (By permission)

Preparatory.—Select the phrases which call into play the Imaging process.

Describe four typical Canadian scenes suggested by this poem.

Distinguish the sound of a in PASTURE, RAGGED, BARS, etc. (Appendix A, 1.)

What words express the central ideas in each stanza, and at the same time form a contrast with one another?

What Inflection is used in the first four lines of each stanza? (Introduction, p. .)

How does the Shading of these lines compare with that of the last two of each stanza? (Introduction, p. .)