"White-Eyes"( By: Mary Oliver )Conotations

(BEFORE) ((describing snowflakes))
"thicken, and begin to fall
into the world below
like stars, or the feathers..."

(AFTER)
"condense and begin to drop
into the world below
like stars, or the tufts..."

The words, condense, drop and tufts change the description of snowflakes falling into the description of the cloud that is falling. Those words exactly describe a cloud and what it does, "condense" and "drop" meaning like rain instead of snow, and "tufts" meaning the cloud itself, so not the snow.