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The main aim of this paper is to conduct a stylistic analysis of five ekphrastic poems: Walter de la Mare's “Brueghel's Winter,” John Berryman's “Winter Landscape,” William Carlos Williams's “The Hunters in the Snow,” Anne Stevenson's “Brueghel's Snow” and Joseph Langland's “Hunters in the Snow: Brueghel,” all inspired by Hunters in the Snow, a 1565 painting by Flemish artist Pieter Brueghel. The paper argues that these attempts to transform Brueghel's painting into words are not mere verbal accounts of their source of inspiration but rather poetic transformations of it in terms of meaning and style. Some of the main questions that this study attempts to answer are: How do the aforementioned poets employ the ekphrasis technique? What features of the painting does each poet foreground, background or even change? What is the poet’s most central preoccupation? To give answers for these questions, a stylistic analysis of the poems will be conducted consecutively to highlight the similarities and differences between them and Brueghel's painting in terms of meaning and style. Former studies of some of the poems at hand include David M. Wyatt (1977), Paul Boam and Hugo McCann (2001), and Jeffrey Meyers (2015). However, none of these studies employs stylistics to the analysis of the poems, nor brings together as many of the poems on Brueghel's painting as the present paper does. Though the significance of Wyatt’s and Meyers’s cannot be ignored, the two attempts are limited in their scale and scope to a discussion of “spatial order” in Williams’s and Berryman’s in the former and a rebuttal of Berryman’s interpretation of “Winter Landscape” in the latter. Others like Boam and McCann, for example, started the discussion but did not give answers to essential questions about the relationship between the poems and the painting. They refer to three of the poems (Berryman’s, Williams’s and Stevenson’s) in their discussion of poetry which engages with painting. Nevertheless, their passing discussion of these poems raises so many questions and provides no answers:

Painting in Poetry: A Stylistic Analysis of Ekphrastic Poems on Pieter Brueghel’s Hunters in the Snow1