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Story summary
- In 'Winter Walk,' poet Lynette Roberts presents a vivid, semi-mythical winter landscape as the protagonist leaves a warm hut.
- Roberts uses imagery like 'crisp white winter snow' and 'red trees wet, adrift with icy flow' to create sensory experience as the protagonist continues her journey.
- The 'bloodstone' imagery hints at life and death.
- A 'four-armed god' pulls the protagonist to stay.
- The conclusion presents joyous union of myth and reality.
