Diamond Glints On Snow By Mary Elizabeth Frye
This poem has been written on headstones, walls, obituaries and read at funerals and memorials, this poem will never lose its touch. Mary Elizabeth Frye has not claimed this poem for herself; she has given it to the world to claim. Frye has written out of wholehearted compassion and it has spoken to the world and will forever be remembering and praised. The poem can be interpreted in many ways, one being true to the experience of grief and a metaphorical interpretation of grief and lost.
Mary Elizabeth Frye is an American poet and is iconic for this one single sonnet. Frye was born on 13th November 1905 in Dayton Ohio, but at the age of three, she was put into an orphanage. At the age of twelve she moved to Baltimore, she had no formal …show more content…
“A thousand winds that blow,” and “the diamond glints on snow” are promises that have a much gentle tone to reassure that her presence it there. The use of “I am” has a strong repeating pattern within these lines to that she is still there and not dead, it uses a very command tone within those parts.
The last two lines of the poem is a reiteration of the first two lines but with a few words changed. This again presents a commanding tone to the readers that she is not restricted to a grave, she describes everything that you can feel her presence in like; the soft stars that shine at night, the sunlight on ripened grain, the snow, and the wind.
There is also a rhythm scheme throughout the poem with the end rhyme to deepen the meaning of this life after death poem, and to also strengthen the poem structure seen it's not technically written as a sonnet. Frye’s sonnet is written in more of the format of a rhyming couplet but it has been classified as a sonnet. The poem was a word illustration of what life after death was when the dead look upon a grave and mourn when the dead doesn’t lay. The dead are always in the smallest aspects of life-like the sun, wind, and snow but ever in a grave where the mourners grieve and
Mary Elizabeth Frye is an American poet and is iconic for this one single sonnet. Frye was born on 13th November 1905 in Dayton Ohio, but at the age of three, she was put into an orphanage. At the age of twelve she moved to Baltimore, she had no formal …show more content…
“A thousand winds that blow,” and “the diamond glints on snow” are promises that have a much gentle tone to reassure that her presence it there. The use of “I am” has a strong repeating pattern within these lines to that she is still there and not dead, it uses a very command tone within those parts.
The last two lines of the poem is a reiteration of the first two lines but with a few words changed. This again presents a commanding tone to the readers that she is not restricted to a grave, she describes everything that you can feel her presence in like; the soft stars that shine at night, the sunlight on ripened grain, the snow, and the wind.
There is also a rhythm scheme throughout the poem with the end rhyme to deepen the meaning of this life after death poem, and to also strengthen the poem structure seen it's not technically written as a sonnet. Frye’s sonnet is written in more of the format of a rhyming couplet but it has been classified as a sonnet. The poem was a word illustration of what life after death was when the dead look upon a grave and mourn when the dead doesn’t lay. The dead are always in the smallest aspects of life-like the sun, wind, and snow but ever in a grave where the mourners grieve and