Puzzler—Snowstorm Trivia

Whether it’s about staying warm or about the magic of an all-white day, poetry about winter snow has deep roots in literary history.

1. Who described snowflakes as dancers with leaping slippers?

2. Who wrote of a snowy village flooded with children?

3. Who described the misery in the sound of wind and leaves in January?

4. Who described peacefully watching children play in the snow while people die further north?

5. Who described flakes of snow as urgent, hexagonal, and horizontal?

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