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