Snowfall Essay

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The First Snowfall The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell is a short poem that tells of this man who watches the snowfall and is thinking about his dead child. He is watching by the window and is grasping meaning from the snow with every snowflake that fell. He then realizes that everything is not forever like how snow wil melt away at some point. In the poem The First Snowfall , James Russell Lowell gives meaning to the snowfall by using similies to make comparasins, and he used symbolism and vivid imagery to convey emotions. The meaning of the story and its relation to the snowfall are brought out with Lowell's use of similies to make comparasins to snow. Lowell when escribing the snoefall says "... the sudden flurries of snowbirds, Like brown leaves whirling by,"(15-16). The author compares snow to falling brown leaves which makes a comparasin to fall. The fall comparasin could be what reminded him of Auburn and made him think of his dead child. The connection between the snowfall and the narrator's dead child can be put into comparasin with how fall is connected to winter. He aslo uses another comparasin in the poem when he is talking about patience he says " I remember the gradual patience That fell from that cloud like snow,"(29-30). This time the author kind of goes backwards comparing something else to snow instead of snow to something else, which adds to its meaning. The relationship between patience and snow is that snow falls over time and builds up, and patience required to wait for it. The comparasons made with relations to snowfall really aid in expressing the meaning of the poem. Emotions in a poem are very important to the overall meaning of the peice and Lowell does a gret deal of conveying emotions through imagery and symbolism in the poem. In the poem he makes a reference to the gave of his child sying "I thought of a mound in

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