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What Is The Poem Snow By David Berman Summary
Jacob Trunkhill
Miss Haaland
Creative Comp.
November 10th 2017

Snow Angels Snow a short poem written by David Berman. This poem is about a bigger brother telling his little brother something far fetched tale. This far fetched tale is about snow angels crossing onto a farmer's property and being shot down and all that is left is their imprints in the snow. The bigger brother is trying to pull something on his brother like all big brothers do. To do so he comes up with a mean farmer that doesn’t like people being on his property. When its snowing the outdoors feels like a room (line 16) . When he runs into his neighbor they get a freaky feeling. The big brother doesn’t tell his little brother that the snow angels were made by the kids

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