1. What is a “dust of snow”? What does the poet say has changed his mood? How has the poet’s mood changed?
2. How does Frost present nature in this poem? The following questions may help you to think of an answer.
(i) What are the birds that are usually named in poems? Do you think a crow is often mentioned in poems? What images come to your mind when you think of a crow?
(ii) Again, what is “a hemlock tree”? Why doesn’t the poet write about a more ‘beautiful’ tree such as a maple, or an oak, or a pine?
(iii) What do the ‘crow’ and ‘hemlock’ represent — joy or sorrow? What does the dust of snow that the crow shakes off a hemlock tree stand for?
3. Have there been times when you felt depressed or hopeless? Have you experienced a similar moment that changed your mood that day? no spam, please
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1 the dust of snow is a poem which signifies that how the day of the port was dull and boring untill a dust of snow dropped in him. his mood was quite gloomy and his mood chand when a crow shook the branch of the hemlock tree under which the poet was wasting his day and by that action of crow the snow dropped on him and his mood changed.
2 ) 1) the poet has mentioned about crow... If we think about a crow then it's a symbol of ill omen but on the other hand it's a beautiful and mysterious black creature of god
2) a hemlock tree is basically a cold vegetation tree and it's the symbol of ill omen also. the port didn't take any other beautiful trees because he wanted to make a gloomy scenario
3) the both of them was the symbol of sorrow. the dust of snow that the crow shook off from tree was the good luck for the author because it didn't let the author waste the whole day.