Cecil Day-Lewis

LitCharts guides for works by Cecil Day-Lewis

Explore LitCharts poetry guides for works by Cecil Day-Lewis. Each guide offers line-by-line analysis, exploration of poetic devices, and helpful resources for studying Cecil Day-Lewis's poetry.

A Hard Frost

"A Hard Frost" is a poem by Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day Lewis that muses on nature's deceptive power. The poem's speaker wakes to find the world outside transformed by the "hard frost" of the title,... view guide

Walking Away

"Walking Away" is a poem published in 1962 by Cecil Day-Lewis, former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. It is an autobiographical poem dedicated to the poet's son Sean. Beginning with a memory o... view guide