Question

pharaphrase the poem dust of snow

Answer 1

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:

Answer 2

In this very small lyric, Frost combines nature and self-experience.  He tells us that how the dust of snow has given his heart a change of mood.  That dust of snow came from a Hemlock   tree, and it came to the poet in a way the crow shook down upon him.  The dust of snow has saved some part of his past, and belonged to a day when the poet had to rue.

Here Frost narrates how even totally insignificant objects of nature, like dust of snow helps him and us to forget the unhappy memory of the past.

The poem has two stanzas of 4 lines each.  The basic metre is iambic dia metre and the rhyme is ab, ab, cd, cd.  The lyric beautifully narrates the poetic feeling of joy and despair.  There is a poetic blending of different moods even in such a very small poem.  

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.