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In the poem 'Snowflakes', HW Longfellow reveals the secret and importance of confession. He says that even a light confession serves its purpose. Every confession relieves confessor from the pain which he undergoes. Confession is symbolical of divinity and it helps a person serve the purpose for living truthfully. It helps us follow the basic teaching of Holy Bible. In Christianity, confession has been given utmost importance and the same has been portrayed in this poem by HW Longfellow.
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
