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Exploring Walter de la Mare's poem 'Brueghel's Winter'

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I can write a descriptive paragraph inspired by Bruegel's painting 'The Hunters in the Snow' and Walter de la Mare's poem 'Breughel’s Winter'.

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Walter de la Mare's 'Brueghel’s Winter' is an ekphrastic poem. An ekphrastic poem is a poem which describes a piece of art, and is inspired by it. You can look at a poem as a whole and consider how the descriptions work together to create a particular tone or mood. You can look at the descriptions individually and consider the effect they have. You can consider the tone you wish to create in your own writing, and then select words and phrases to create this tone.

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