Winter-Piece, by Charles Tomlinson, describes the effects of the winter season; shutters are drawn, windows are sprayed with hail and possibly rain and snow. The fierce wind closes the gates "like a gunshot." Birds, like crows, are forced to fly away, leaving behind a home they once loved, as cold weather deprives them of their food supplies. The spider freezes to death, "masked by the cold", but does not let go. Through the thick snow, the house peeks out behind "its pitted and ragged frosting," which highlights the sense of destruction and mutilation. This literary work has a free form, and is composed of one stanza, so the poet does not use stanza breaks, with twenty-one lines. The poem has no unrhymed lines, so it is not musical, making these lines humorless and more serious. The use of punctuation is visually translucent, due to the strong use of commas, therefore creating a pause in order to relax the reader, for this reason using the caesura, causing the poem to have a slow flow. Tomlinson works with grammatically cor...