The First Snowfall By: James Russell Lowell

1. The First Snowfall By: James Russell Lowell By: Ben A. Webster

2. Stanza One • Describes waking up to snow falling in the morning. • Getting snowed in during the day • Looking out the window to the silent snow covered hills • The snow continues to fall through the night

3. Stanza Two • The trees are covered in snow that looks like ermine (the expensive white fur of a type of weasel). • The trees are being guarded by deer like earl. • The poet uses the word pearl to describe the snow mounds on the twig of an elm-tree.

4. Stanza Three • Carrara is a type of roofing commonly used in Italy made of clay. • There was a roosters crow muffled by the snow. • The rails of the Carrara were covered with snow.

5. Stanza Four • It continues talking about the silence of the snow • Then birds fly by with snow on their backs • They look like brown leaves

6. Stanza Five • The snow is covering the gravestone as a Robin shield her children.

7. Stanza Six • In this stanza the author’s daughter asks who makes the snow fall • He replies saying the “All-Father” a force protecting us below

8. Your Turn • I’ve done the first seven stanzas, now its your turn to write down a few things about the last four • Divide yourselves into four groups • Explain what you think that stanza means