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explain the poem dust of snow

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Answered by kaldentenzin81
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Answered by 2Tina1
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Frost was proud of his small, compact poems that say much more than they seem to say, his 1923 volume New Hampshire gathers several of these including Fire and Ice. Nothing Gold can stay and one of the shortest of all, Dust of snow. One sentence long, it occupies eight short lines and contains only thirty -four words, All but two of them monosyllabic, amd all of them part of even a young child's vocabulary.
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.
Much of the effect of the poem of this derives from its paradoxes or seeming contractions, the first of which is in the title. Although the phrase a dusting of snow is common is weather reports, dust usually calls forth notions of something dirty and unpleasant.
It is also paradoxical that the speaker's mood is initially so negative on a presumably fine winter day after a fresh snowfall, that he has so far rued this day. Even more paradoxically, the agent responsible for provoking a change for the better is a bird normally contemned :the large, black, raucous......

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