Louis MacNeice

LitCharts guides for works by Louis MacNeice

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

Prayer Before Birth

"Prayer Before Birth" is a poem by the Anglo-Irish poet Louis MacNeice, written during World War II and first published in MacNeice's 1944 collection Springboard. The speaker, an unborn child, pray... view guide

Snow

"Snow" is an early poem by Louis MacNeice, first published in 1935, that examines nothing less than the nature of existence itself. Looking out a bay window, the poem's speaker is suddenly struck b... view guide