Short essay on first snowfall

In Lowell’s poem, he writes about the beginning of a light snow, conveying the coming of soft winter, and about how the coming winter reminds a man of his daughter who has died. Lowell demonstrates these thoughts through literary devices and figurative languages such as metaphors, imagery and allusion.

The excitement of seeing snow, made me forget the torture of severe cold. Lo and behold! I was thrilled to see the white landscape for the first time in my life. It was snow all around. The roofs of houses, the trees, the peaks and the streets everything was covered and painted with snowfall.

I am immediately taken aback by the view. The entire ground, as far as my eyes can see, is coated in a hefty blanket of solid white. The light seems to dance atop the snow, making it glitter wherever the sun shines. All the trees around are…show more content…

The first four stanzas of The First Snowfall discuss a cold day, in which it starts to lightly snow. Here, James Lowell states “I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of the sky,…” (Lowell,13-14). Through this statement he uses metaphor in a way to describe the quiet way the snow is falling.