@DidoLamenting
Heavily influenced by Ted Hughes' Snowdrop
Sorry what? They share an almost identical title. They are both about the thematic concept of death and rebirth, a universal theme in art. That does not make one derivative of the other. I mean, disdain her if you like - our reaction to poetry is of course highly subjective because meaning is so often obscured, but I would want an accusation like that be justified. I do not think it is.
For comparison
Snowdrop by Ted Hughes
Now is the globe shrunk tight
Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart.
Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass,
Move through an outer darkness
Not in their right minds,
With the other deaths. She, too, pursues her ends,
Brutal as the stars of this month,
Her pale head heavy as metal.
Snowdrops by Louise Glück
Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know
what despair is; then
winter should have meaning for you.
I did not expect to survive,
earth suppressing me. I didn't expect
to waken again, to feel
in damp earth my body
able to respond again, remembering
after so long how to open again
in the cold light
of earliest spring--
afraid, yes, but among you again
crying yes risk joy
in the raw wind of the new world.