Question

Explanation of the poem " Dust of Snow".

Answer 1

The poem, Dust Of Snow by Robert Frost, reiterates that the little things in life can make huge changes in our future. It also shows that if we can take the hard times of life in stride, eventually something will happen to change our situation into happier times. The simple things we do for others can make all the difference. Just think about those random acts of kindness we do and how much they brighten a person’s day and sometimes changes their future.
Noticing and appreciating all the small things in life will make your life happier. It will also cause you to have a spirit that is willing to change and therefore succeed.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Dust of Snow is only eight lines long and seems to be the simplest of short poems. With full end rhyme and short lines on the surface the two stanzas appear to be nothing more than a snapshot of a trivial event concerning a crow, a tree, snow and a human being.

Yet, as always with Robert Frost, you know that beneath the surface there will develop deeper worlds of meaning and possibility. As Frost himself wrote:

'It is what is beyond that makes poetry - what is unsaid in any work of art. Its unsaid part is its best part.'

So it is with this tiny poem. The reader might take only fifteen seconds to recite it but once finished there could well be several hours spent on, or several ways of, working out what the message is, if any.

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

First published in 1923 in the book New Hampshire, this little poem has remained popular because it juxtaposes two fundamentals - human complexity and animal simplicity - in such a compact and symbolic form.ust of Snow with its short neat form, rhyming lines and rhythmic beat is simplicity itself. It reflects the rather bleak, minimalist imagery.

There's the speaker, the man, under a tree. It's probably winter, there's snow on the tree, an evergreen pine called a hemlock, and a crow has happened to send some snow dust down on the man.

Whether it falls on to his head or down his neck is unknown because it's not really relevant to the poem. What is important is the way that crow makes it happen, but once again, the reader is left to imagine the bird's specific action.

Whether it be the crow preening, merely shaking, flying off, or landing, or readjusting its feet on a branch, somehow a light dusting of snow is the result, and it lands on the speaker.

The actual word is shook, so it could be that the crow is shivering in the snowy tree. For the speaker this must have come out of the blue; the crow's action caused an unexpected fall of snow dust.