Image of Grief

In Longfellow's poem, "The Cross of Snow", he used the cross-shaped snow marks on the Holy Cross Mountain to convey the feeling of grief. He felt that he wore the cross for eighteen years, and the cross reminds him of the sadness of the death of his wife. He might have chosen the cross because it is related to Jesus’ crucifixion and the Christian religion. The feelings of his sorrow is stapled in for eighteen years. The formation of the cross on the mountain may also be significant. The snow stains in the mountain because the mountain has crevices in the shape of a cross. These places do not get shone by the sunlight, so the snow does not melt all year round.

For me, grief is like falling though a deep and dark hole. The hole is bottomless, and get darker and darker as gravity pull you deeper and deeper down the hole. You get the feeling of falling constantly. This makes you feel helpless and insecure, because you never get to the bottom. You just keep falling and falling and falling. You are engrossed into that darkness and it gets worse day by day. You never land to the bottom until the grief ends. However, when it does end, you will see light again.