Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Snow-Flakes"

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This paper explains that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Snow-Flakes" poem is a description of how nature reveals the very essence of grief and despair through the evocation of snow and the onset of winter. The author points out that, throughout this poem, the central meaning and intention of the poet is conveyed by the use of various techniques and formal poetic devices. The paper relates that the most obvious device is the use of structural elements to divide the poem into three areas of related interest, which combine to make up the central theme of the work. The paper includes quotations from the poem.

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"A central formal quality in this poem is the separation of the various components of the poem into stanzas. The division of the poem into different sections or stanzas serves to convey the progression of feeling and emotion in the poem. Therefore the structure of the poem and the fact that it is divided into three stanzas is an extremely important aspect of this short poem. In brief, the three stanzas each contain a different mood or meaning of the poet's exploration of grief and despair."

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