Dust of snow
Intro:
- what do you do when something bad happens?
- like someone steps on you in crowded bus or metro?
- when you don't have the mood to study?
- when you feel you don't have something that other person has?
- story of tenalirama and krishnadevaraya - everything happens for good
Meaning:
- healing - chikithsa , teek karna
- hemlock tree -
- supremacy - varchasva, uchchhta
- realise - ehsaas, mehsoos
- poisonous - jaharila
- indicator - suchak, sankethak
- doom - vinash
- carriers - vaahak
- narrator - varnan kartha
- ironical - vidambana
- aspects - pakshon
- unpredictability - anpekshith
Poem:
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.
Summary:
The short poem by Robert Frost throws light upon the unimaginable healing power of nature and tiny things. From a bad mood to ill-health, there is nothing that can’t be cured by nature. The author was experiencing one such bad day when a crow’s movement near a hemlock tree dusted snow upon him. The snow instantly makes him happier. His day gets a lot better. Thus, the supremacy of nature as a whole made him realise how petty his problem was. The fact that hemlock tree is poisonous combined with crow being the indicator of doom and fear are used in the poem as the carriers of happiness in the life of narrator is ironical. The poet, through these objects has tried to highlight that sometimes creatures linked with negative aspects of life can be the bringer of change and happiness. Being outdoors in nature, with all it’s unpredictability can benefit anyone, anywhere at any time.
