• Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.

    Sylvia Plath: Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.
    1962 'Wintering', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel, 1965).