The First Snow-Fall

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The First Snow-Fall

Literary elements

The poem

He kissed his living daughter because he can not kiss his dead daughter.

He believed in God.

The snow reminds him of the sadness from his daughter.

It's about a father that talks about his dead daughter and the pain he has.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

He served as an ambassador to Spain (1877) and to Great Britain (1880).

He helped found the magazine Atlantic Monthly.

He lost 3 out of 4 children and his wife.

By age 30, he had reached his prime as a poet.

Entered Harvard College at the age of 15.

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Romantic Characteristics

"And I told of the good All-father whoi cares for us here below"

She believes in God who is supernatural.

"And the sudden flurries of snow-birds like brown leaves whirling by"

It tells how pretty the birds are by this snow like leaves floating by.

"I thoguht of a ,mound in sweet Auburn where a little headstone stood"

Express sadness because his daughter had died.

"And she, kissing back, could not move"

The common man can't get over the pain of his daughter dying.