“And stories of this kind are often told
in countries where great flower bar the roads
with reds and blues which seal the route to snow-
as if, in telling, raconteur unlock
the colour with its complement and go through to the area behind the eyes
where silent, unrefractive whiteness lies.”
-excerpted from Page’s “Stories of Snow”
Wind, cloud, rain, snow, fog, or hail is weather phenomenon. Obviously, snow is one of them. In Canada, “Where great flowers bar roads with reds and blues which seals the route to snow” (46-47), which describes the Canada’s weather precisely. Snow, every now and then, starts in October when flower blossom. It can retain for about five to six months each year. There are parts of people who hatred a long term snow period. They look ahead to a warm spring. However, the author of the “Stories of Snow”, Page, loves snow dramatically. In her poem, snow is a symbolic material that it is visible and touchable. It is unlike spiritual event in “Waiting of Godot.” Snow is specific and true. It indeed exists in a cold winter especially with six angled flakes and white colour. In some poets’ articles, the white is imaged as the white light, which is synthesized by red, orange, yellow, green, black, blue, and purple lights. In fact, the white light is a riot. The whiteness is colourful, motley in Page’s eyes. Page actually grants the lyric meanings to snow in her “Stories of Snow.”
