Chapter 20: ...So Does Season

Now winter nights enlarge

This number of their hours;

And clouds their storms discharge

Upon the airy towers.

Let now the chimneys blaze

And cups o’erflow with wine,

Let well-tuned words amaze

With harmony divine...

The writer of the poem uses the typical idea of winter, or so Foster states.  Foster states that winter is meant to be youthful, as this poem obviously is.  The poem also touches on adulthood, as Foster also claimed to be part of winter.  The poem touches on adulthood through the mention of wine.  The mention of wine brings a more mature aspect to the poem itself, rather than the light airy-ness that was all throughout the poem, even having the line 'airy towers'.  The poem itself dances across Foster's spectrum of what he believes writing about winter is through the trends of other literary works.