He talks of his ''nurse wrapping him in comforter and cap" against the cold.... suggests either his childhood memory or extreme elderliness when the wedding cake then, could be a suggested memory of another time.
I do recollect this from childhood, due to the "sleepyhead" part. That in particular caught on and became our educator's fiendish weapon against the class.
We were convinced that it was the only reason for the poem; because of how puzzled we all were: at this stuff called "snow".... which was and still is, rare around here.
He talks of his ''nurse wrapping him in comforter and cap" against the cold.... suggests either his childhood memory or extreme elderliness when the wedding cake then, could be a suggested memory of another time.
I do recollect this from childhood, due to the "sleepyhead" part. That in particular caught on and became our educator's fiendish weapon against the class.
We were convinced that it was the only reason for the poem; because of how puzzled we all were: at this stuff called "snow".... which was and still is, rare around here.