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James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell. The First Snowfall Page 272. Biography. 1819-1891 Both born and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts American poet, critic, essayist, editor and diplomat Graduated from Harvard in 1838 with a law degree

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James Russell Lowell

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  1. James Russell Lowell The First Snowfall Page 272.

  2. Biography • 1819-1891 Both born and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts • American poet, critic, essayist, editor and diplomat • Graduated from Harvard in 1838 with a law degree • Wrote critical essays against slavery in The Atlantic Monthly, the newspaper he was editor for • Married Maria White, a poet, who was an inspiration for uplifting and cheerful feelings in his writings • 1853: ¾ of his children, and his wife die • His writing was negatively effected

  3. Fireside Poet • Did not write to impress other writers, wrote for fun. • Stories/ poems were told around the fire, “Story time” writing • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, James Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier • 19th century American Poets from New England • Romantic Poetry- English themes, meters and imagery • Romanticism: feelings, nature and imagination vs. logic

  4. The First Snowfall Page 272

  5. Theme: Nature is Healing • Again I looked at the snowfall, And thought of the leaden sky That arched o'er our first great sorrow, When that mound was heaped so high. I remembered the gradual patience That fell from that cloud like snow, Flake by flake, healing and hiding The scar of our deep-plunged woe.

  6. Theme: Love your Children while you have them. • “Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her; And she, kissing back, could not know That my kiss was given to her sister, Folded close under deepening snow.”

  7. Imagery • "Flake by flake, healing and hiding/The scar that renewedour woe," • "And the sudden flurries of snowbirds/Like brown leaveswhirling by,"

  8. Symbolism • Snow : innocence of his daughter who died • The color white: purity • "The snow had begun in the gloaming And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway” Highway: the destination after life, heaven.

  9. Citations • http://www.slideshare.net/spillwd/fireside-poetry • http://www.helium.com/items/331458-fireside-poets-in-19th-c-britain

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