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The poem “The Cross of Snow” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow uses personification, symbolism, and metaphors to convey the themes of sorrow, grief, and eternal love. The poem revovles areound a grieving Longfellow who is mourning the loss of his wife who died in a fire eightteen years ago. Longfellow later came across a mountain with a cross filled with snow. The symbolism in the snow cross in the mountain symbplosez, true lover never dies.
The peom starts off in the night and Longfellow comes across a picture of his wife. He uses personification to determine this. “A gentle face--the face of one long dead--Looks at me from the wall, where round its head”. The gentle face that looks at him from the wall is most likely a picture of his late wife. He also says that the gentle face was the face of the long dead, which incidacted it is hos wife who has been dead for nearly 20 years. Lonfellow says the face of one long dead is looking at hime. The picture’s angle probably makes it seem like his wife is looking directly at him or perhaps, Longfellow probably wanted to believe that his wife id looking down on him to cope with the grief
In the next stanza Longfellow metaphorrically describes his wife. In the second stanza, Longfellow states that “The night-lamp casts a …show more content…
Throughout the poem we learn that Longfellow has variuos ways of remebering his wife. For one, we learn that he views his wife as an angel in heaven by belieing that she has a white soul and that he sees a halo of light when the night lamp is on. Another thing we learn is that he mght have a religious background and values the cross as being a symbol for his everlastin love for his deceased. Although Longfellow is still grieving over the death of his wife twenty years later, he uses pictures, memory, the necklace, and the snow cross on the mountain to cope with the
The poem “The Cross of Snow” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow uses personification, symbolism, and metaphors to convey the themes of sorrow, grief, and eternal love. The poem revovles areound a grieving Longfellow who is mourning the loss of his wife who died in a fire eightteen years ago. Longfellow later came across a mountain with a cross filled with snow. The symbolism in the snow cross in the mountain symbplosez, true lover never dies.
The peom starts off in the night and Longfellow comes across a picture of his wife. He uses personification to determine this. “A gentle face--the face of one long dead--Looks at me from the wall, where round its head”. The gentle face that looks at him from the wall is most likely a picture of his late wife. He also says that the gentle face was the face of the long dead, which incidacted it is hos wife who has been dead for nearly 20 years. Lonfellow says the face of one long dead is looking at hime. The picture’s angle probably makes it seem like his wife is looking directly at him or perhaps, Longfellow probably wanted to believe that his wife id looking down on him to cope with the grief
In the next stanza Longfellow metaphorrically describes his wife. In the second stanza, Longfellow states that “The night-lamp casts a …show more content…
Throughout the poem we learn that Longfellow has variuos ways of remebering his wife. For one, we learn that he views his wife as an angel in heaven by belieing that she has a white soul and that he sees a halo of light when the night lamp is on. Another thing we learn is that he mght have a religious background and values the cross as being a symbol for his everlastin love for his deceased. Although Longfellow is still grieving over the death of his wife twenty years later, he uses pictures, memory, the necklace, and the snow cross on the mountain to cope with the