Dust of Snow by ROBERT FROST/ POETRY/FIRST FLIGHT/CBSE 10

        

 

 

 

 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. 

QUESTIONS : COLLECTED,COMPILED & EDITED 

Q1. What is a “dust of snow”? What does the poet say has changed his mood? How has the poet’s mood changed? 

Q 2. How does Frost present nature in this poem?

Q(3) What are the birds that are usually named in poems? Do you think a crow is often mentioned in poems? What images come to your mind when you think of a crow?

Q(4) Again, what is “a hemlock tree”? Why doesn’t the poet write about a more ‘beautiful’ tree such as a maple, or an oak, or a pine?

Q(5) What do the ‘crow’ and ‘hemlock’ represent — joy or sorrow? What does the dust of snow that the crow shakes off a hemlock tree stand for?

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTION

Q. How does the poet feel before the ‘change of mood’? Why did he feel so?

Q. Do you think the poet presents the bright or cheerful side of a Nature in he poem?Give reason.

Q. Describe the scene of falling of dust snow.Impact on poet.

Q. The crow and the Hemlock tree, are generally considered to be inauspicious and ominous symbols. Does the poet use so?

Q. Why does the poet say that he had “saved some part of a day I (he) had rued”?

Q. What is the message in the poem Dust of Snow?

Q. What did the poet think of the day before the fall of snow on him?

 

LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTION

Q. There are many times when we feel depressed and hopeless. We think things will never change. Suddenly, a change comes in our mood when cheerfulness replaces the sense of regret. Justify the above statement in the context of the poem Dust of Snow.

Q. Poets have great power of imagination. Robert Frost also explains his imaginationvery well and proves that sometimes the bad symbols change into boon. Discuss.

Q. Our mental condition depends on our surroundings and it can be changed according to it.Explain and prove.