Extra Credit: Weather Poetry!

Snowflakes
Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
this is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
now whispered and revealed
to wood and field.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Weather was used in this poem by use of imagery. They were sensory details, there only to amuse the reader. Longfellow's use of knowledge made the poem more interesting and detailed. It gave the poem a more dramatic effect. And most of the weather was used as adjectives. These include clody, troubled sky and such weather conditions like that.
This poem wouldn't be the same without the mentions of weather, after all, the title "Snowflakes" is weather related. The poem would drastically change. Personification was used to describe weather. This was the only peotic device regarding weather. This didn't help my knowledge about weather at all. They only used the words softly, not involving new knowlege.

^there are two paragraphs. I couldn't figure out how to get them to seperate on the final publishing