we often ascribe general connotation to certain things . such connotation influence our views on these things. do you think the poet has tried to question such generalisation in the poem dust of snow
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The poem establishes contrasts, in part with connotations. Crows are usually associated with death. They are scavengers and dark black like the night and Poe uses one exactly in this way in a famous poem. Crows represent death. When Frost uses a crow he is drawing on these associations. Yet the crow's act of shaking a tree limb and dumping snow on the speaker raises the speaker's mood, saving a day he had been dreading.
"Hemlock" is, of course, associated with poison. The poem, therefore, features a bird representing death in a tree representing poison, shaking snow on the speaker in stanza one, which leads to the speaker's change of mood, for the better, in stanza two.
Stanza one contrasts with stanza two. The stanzas exhibit a cause-effect relationship, as well as an external-internal relationship. The external causes an internal change for the better.
A crow is literally just a bird. A hemlock tree is literally just another tree. Yet, in the poem, connotatively, out of death arises a lighter mood, a "saved" day. Nothing earth-shattering, just a subtle, playful change of mood. Or, if that seems a stretch to you, at the least the usually foreboding crow acts playfully, jokingly; demonstrates a sense of humor. Either way, the contrasts are established by the connotations.
Poets play with words and their connotations. At least Frost does here.
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