English Class 10 - Class X CBSE Poem 1 Dust of Snow Material
INTRODUCTION The poem “Dust of Snow” is written by American poet Robert Frost. It is a simple and short poem with a deeper and larger meaning. The poet explains how an act as petty as experiencing snow on one’s body can brighten one’s day. SUMMARY This poem tells that even a simple moment has a large significance. The poet mentions the crow and hemlock tree in this poem. Crow signifies his depressive and sorrowful mood, and the hemlock tree is poisonous. Both these signs that the poet was not in a good mood, and so he describes the dark, depressive, and bitter side of nature to present his similar mood. The poet says that once he was in a sad, depressive mood and was sitting under a hemlock tree. A crow, sitting on the same tree, shook off the dust of snow i.e., small particles of snow that remain on the surface after the snowfall, on the poet. This simple action changed the poet’s mood. He realized that he had just wasted a part of his day repenting and being lost in s...