Dust of snow summary

Dust of Snow The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree . Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. Robert Frost About the author – Robert Frost Robert Frostwas born on March 26 th, 1873 in San Francisco and died in January 29, 1963. Frost mostly wrote about the life and landscape of New England. He avoided the poetic experiments of his time and was a poet of traditional verse forms and meter. Frost, one of the best-known and most beloved American poets of the 20th century, won the Pulitzer Prize four times for New Hampshire(1924), Collected Poems(1931),A Further Range(1937), and A Witness Tree(1943). Summary of Dust of Snow The poem tells us about the poet’s experience when he realised that temporary sorrows of life are but minor things when compared to the magnitude of the wonders of nature. The poet narrates an incident when he was feeling upset. As he was walking beneath a hemlock tree he received a sprinkling of snow which was the outcome of a crow’s movement on the tree. The effect of the drizzle of snow on the plaintive poet was a transformational one. It shook the poet out of his gloom and he realised how minute and unimportant his adverse circumstances were as compared to the immense magnitude of the world of nature. This realisation changed the poet’s melancholic mood and he once again became his happy positive self. This short poem narrating a simple incident has a deeper underlying meaning. Through th...

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In Short • In “Dust of Snow”, the poet was on his way by a hemlock tree. Suddenly a crow dropped some snowflakes from the tree on the poet. • This small incident changed the poet’s sad mood and made him happy. • The poet conveys the message that even small things in our life can bring happiness. Moreover, bad times in life will lead to good times if we can persist with it. Dust of Snow Explanation The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree The poem starts with a simple incident. It was winter season. The poet was walking by the side of a hemlock tree. As the poet passes by, all of a sudden, a crow shook the tree and some fine particles or flakes of snow from the tree fell on the poet. Advertisements Hemlock is a poisonous plant with small white flowers. This plant produces poisonous juice. The crow and the hemlock tree both signify sadness, gloom and misfortune. So, we are afraid, maybe something bad is going to happen with the poet. Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. We were wrong. The poet clears our doubt here. In this stanza, we come to know that the incident indeed changed something for the poet. But that is for the good. The fall of snowflakes from the tree uplifted the poet’s bad mood. The poet was in a depressed state that day, though the reason is unknown. He had a regret (I had rued) in his mind that the whole day would go waste. But this small incident made him glad. It helped him enjoy the rest...

Dust of Snowis a beautiful short But, as always with It is what is beyond that makes poetry – what is unsaid in any work of art. Its unsaid part is its best part. In the Dust of Snow has as its main themes: • communication between nature and humans. • nature healing and helping with negative human emotions. • the significance of small natural events

The poetry of Robert Frost is usually associated with the landscape of the place that was his home for the longest time, that is, New England. Dust of Snow: Analysis In “Dust of Snow” as well, the landscape of New England is beautifully portrayed by the poet, and it is an important element of the poem as a whole. Winters in New England are harsh. Because there are adequate heating facilities indoors, one prefers to stay at home rather than outside in the excruciatingly cold weather. However, sometimes unavoidable circumstances arise in which one must go out no matter how unwilling one is. Perhaps the poet was having such a day when he had composed this poem. As he tells us in the poem, he had not been looking forward to that day, and the day was not turning out any better than he had expected either. He had thought to himself that the day would, in fact, be going to waste. Perhaps the region was very heavily snowed in that day, and the poet could not do the work he had set out to do. In any case, his mood was pretty bad as he was walking by a wooded area. In that area, hemlock trees were going. As any student of English literature will know. As the poet himself must have had in his mind as well, hemlock is the name of the poison used to kill the eminent scholar known as Socrates, whose name we find mentioned in the works of his most illustrious student Plato. Hence, the hemlock tree is generally considered to be an ill omen as it is a symbol of death. The sight of the heml...

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Dust of Snow By- Robert Frost Value Points of the Poem • It is a winter’s day. • The treetops were covered with masses of snowflakes. • The poet was walking under one such snow covered tree. • This tree was a hemlock tree, a conifer associated with poisonous qualities. • A crow alighted on the hemlock tree suddenly. • The sudden movement of the crow, the mass of snowflakes started falling down the tree. • The snowflakes fell down upon the poet who was standing under the tree. • The mass of snowflakes was so light and find that it looked like the dust of white snow. • The sudden movement and arrival of the crow and the falling of the flakes of snow look like just ordinary happenings. • But the falling of fine snowflakes on the poet leaves a tremendous effect on him. • Before this, the poet was in a gloomy or despairing mood. • However, this simple beautiful act of nature has a very comforting effect on him. • The fall of snow over him changes his mood and mental state. • It gladdens his heart. • Before this incident, that particular day was not going too well for him. • He had decided in his mind that day would go waste. • However, the fall of snowflakes on him makes him realise that the whole day has not been wasted. • At least, this part of the day when he is enjoying the snowflakes has been saved. • At least, some part of the day has been pleasant. • If he had not experienced such a pleasant experience, he would have regretted at the wastage of the whole day.

Dust of Snowis a beautiful short But, as always with It is what is beyond that makes poetry – what is unsaid in any work of art. Its unsaid part is its best part. In the Dust of Snow has as its main themes: • communication between nature and humans. • nature healing and helping with negative human emotions. • the significance of small natural events

In Short • In “Dust of Snow”, the poet was on his way by a hemlock tree. Suddenly a crow dropped some snowflakes from the tree on the poet. • This small incident changed the poet’s sad mood and made him happy. • The poet conveys the message that even small things in our life can bring happiness. Moreover, bad times in life will lead to good times if we can persist with it. Dust of Snow Explanation The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree The poem starts with a simple incident. It was winter season. The poet was walking by the side of a hemlock tree. As the poet passes by, all of a sudden, a crow shook the tree and some fine particles or flakes of snow from the tree fell on the poet. Advertisements Hemlock is a poisonous plant with small white flowers. This plant produces poisonous juice. The crow and the hemlock tree both signify sadness, gloom and misfortune. So, we are afraid, maybe something bad is going to happen with the poet. Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. We were wrong. The poet clears our doubt here. In this stanza, we come to know that the incident indeed changed something for the poet. But that is for the good. The fall of snowflakes from the tree uplifted the poet’s bad mood. The poet was in a depressed state that day, though the reason is unknown. He had a regret (I had rued) in his mind that the whole day would go waste. But this small incident made him glad. It helped him enjoy the rest...

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