how many symbol do you find in the poem dust of Snow? what is the purpose to use those symbols?
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Answer:
Robert Frost and Dust of Snow
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.
The other outstanding feature of Dust of Snow is that it is so accessible, like many of Frost's more popular poems, the reader being taken under that same tree to experience the crow and the snow.
And yet, as the analysis will show, there's much more going on in what appear to be lines of simple, straightforward language.
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
Answer:
four
Explanation:
hemlock tree sadness
snow depression
crow ominous
falling of dust of snow - changed poet's mood. saved rest of his day from being ruined