Summary for the poem Winters Lake by Wilfred Campbell.

                   

  The Winters Lake 

                                - William Wilfred Campbell

         The poem Winters Lake was written by the Canadian Poet Wilfred Campbell. He is a confederation poet and he is considered the unofficial poet laureate of Canada. It is a Philosophical poem. 

         This poem depicts the dark and and dreary landscape of Canada. "Out in a world of death far to the northward lying". The poet is describing the Northern region of Canada as a world of death employing the image of Winters Lake.  It is a land of death where waste and white stretch the great Lakes. This region remains dull and worthless lacking love, happiness and peace. 

          This poem presents the darker side of    Canadian Landscape. The poet makes a contrast between death and life. The dominating season in Canada is Winter. This region is veiled with snow. In this deadly land bushes and flowering plants never exists. The land remains haunted. The poet compares this land to a desert. " Wastes of desolate woods, deserts of water and shore".In this desert snowy region one can feel only loneliness and loss. 

              Thus the poem depicts the darker and dreary landscape of Canada. The glimmering moon, thunder of winter woe, lonely hidden bays, rocky region and the ghost like images decries the hostile nature of the Winters Lake in Canada.