Comparing Romantic Poets

Romantic Poets write about life, death and, nature to express how they are feeling about the idea they are writing about. Romantic poets use figurative language to help understand the theme they are trying to imply through their poems. In “The Cross of Snow” by Longfellow, and “The First Snowfall’ by Lowell, both authors develop different themes, but they write about a similar topic and use similar poetic devices to integrate their theme into their writing. In the poem “The First Snowfall,” Lowell uses many poetic devices such as similes, allusions, symbolism, and rhyme scheme to help readers recognize the theme of find something to remember the ones who passed away, and help the pain of losing a loved one. This theme is expressed in line …show more content…
In “The Cross of Snow”, Longfellow uses symbolism, personification, and words with connotation to set the mood of the poem. The author uses these devices to help explain the theme of the poem being, remember the ones you lost, and don’t forget about them. Longfellow uses personification to show his feelings through saying “The face of one long dead looks at me from the wall, where round its head.” Longfellow misses his wife, and he still thinks about her. He uses personification to describe how he feels about the the picture of his wife, and how it makes him feel. Longfellow then uses symbolism similar to Lowell’s poem “That sun-defying, in its deep ravines, Displays a cross I wear upon my my breast. Longfellow feels the pain of loss when he looks at the ravines in the snow. The cross represents how he feels about his wife that died. The writer feels a lot of pain for the loss of his wife, this is proven by “In the long, sleepless watches of the night.” He doesn’t sleep well at night and thinks about his wife frequently. Words with negative connotation are used to create a sad, depressing