CLASS X DUST OF SNOW
POEM ANALYSIS
The poet deals with three main aspects -
a) communication between nature and humans
b) nature's healing capacity
c) the significance of unimportant natural events
Robert Frost's poems may seem simple yet has greater and deeper meaning and significance. He was of the belief that poetry is about what is unsaid.
It seems the speaker was either standing or passing underneath the hemlock tree when the incident occurs. Its winter time and there is snow all around. Due to a stir caused by the crow the snow settled on the hemlock tree falls on the speaker (author). The speaker was probably not in good mood and would have continued to be in that mood if the dust of snow would not have fallen on him. The which would have been wasted away in regret has been rescued due to the dust of snow.
A very simple poem, yet with a profound implication which suggests that nature's seemingly unimportant things have brought in a significant change in the speaker and has lifted his mood. The crow and hemlock tree are associated with negative aspects of nature - crow being a bringer of ill luck and hemlock tree is a poisonous tree. The speaker deliberately uses two negative aspects to show that even negative things present in nature can help in generating positiveness in a human being. He wants to emphasise on the healing power of nature and the relationship of human beings to nature.
Poetic devices
a) Rhyming scheme - abab cdcd
b) Alliteration - consecutive consenant sounds in a line - Had given my heart, And saved some part
c) Inversion - When structure of a sentence is changed by the poet to create rhyme like in stanza 1
d) Assonance - prominence of vowel sound throughout a line - Shook down on me
e) Enjambment - when the same sentence continues to the next line without the use of punctuation marks.
This poem is the best example of enjambment where the whole poem is written in one sentence. It begins with a capital letter and the poem ends with a '.' (period/ full stop).
The poet deals with three main aspects -
a) communication between nature and humans
b) nature's healing capacity
c) the significance of unimportant natural events
Robert Frost's poems may seem simple yet has greater and deeper meaning and significance. He was of the belief that poetry is about what is unsaid.
It seems the speaker was either standing or passing underneath the hemlock tree when the incident occurs. Its winter time and there is snow all around. Due to a stir caused by the crow the snow settled on the hemlock tree falls on the speaker (author). The speaker was probably not in good mood and would have continued to be in that mood if the dust of snow would not have fallen on him. The which would have been wasted away in regret has been rescued due to the dust of snow.
A very simple poem, yet with a profound implication which suggests that nature's seemingly unimportant things have brought in a significant change in the speaker and has lifted his mood. The crow and hemlock tree are associated with negative aspects of nature - crow being a bringer of ill luck and hemlock tree is a poisonous tree. The speaker deliberately uses two negative aspects to show that even negative things present in nature can help in generating positiveness in a human being. He wants to emphasise on the healing power of nature and the relationship of human beings to nature.
Poetic devices
a) Rhyming scheme - abab cdcd
b) Alliteration - consecutive consenant sounds in a line - Had given my heart, And saved some part
c) Inversion - When structure of a sentence is changed by the poet to create rhyme like in stanza 1
d) Assonance - prominence of vowel sound throughout a line - Shook down on me
e) Enjambment - when the same sentence continues to the next line without the use of punctuation marks.
This poem is the best example of enjambment where the whole poem is written in one sentence. It begins with a capital letter and the poem ends with a '.' (period/ full stop).
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