Transcript The First Snow Fall

The First Snowfall
By: James Russell Lowell
By: Ben A. Webster
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
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 elmtree.
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.
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
Stanza Five
• The snow is covering the gravestone as a
Robin shield her children.
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
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