Aesthetically, black has been celebrated by the (e.g., Shelley’s “black night”) and the Symbolists (e.g., Baudelaire’s “noir” as a vehicle for the sublime). Black is both absence (of light, of color) and presence (of depth, of possibility). The “blacked winter” sits at the intersection of negative space and potential narrative energy .
Blacked is an unusual verb form. As a past participle, it implies an action performed something: to blacken , to render black . In everyday usage it connotes: ashby winter blacked