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The Web Designer Excerpts quoted below are for scholarly and educational purposes only and are presented in compliance with the Fair Use Doctrine of US Copyright Law. No, as a matter of fact, many of the poems in the second book, the political poems, were written before the first book. I then did Silence in the Snowy Fields . Silence in the Snowy Fields is dominated by the use of the natural object as image, a practice that is much more deeply ingrained in the European cultural tradition than it is in the American one. Images from the landscape, words such as horse and snow , have acquired their own patina and history, and remain central to, say, a Spanish or Italian society.