CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The crow has also been used by the poet as a symbol of inauspicious things because it is fearsome and survives on eating bad things and is scary. The poet uses them to symbolize the bad things in life that can be changed with little caring and also has good things imbibed in them that need to be looked properly.

Detailed explanation-2: -Crow signifies his depressive and sorrowful mood and hemlock tree is a poisonous tree. Both these signify 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -’Dust of Snow’ is a short poem describing a simple moment which has a larger significance. A crow sitting on a hemlock tree shakes off the dust of snow on the poet. This simple action changes the depressive mood of the poet.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: The poet has observed nature as a positive medium of change for him. The poet had been in pensive mood in the poem. But when the way a crow shakes snow dust off, it changes his mood. Nature gave him the inspiration to behave in a positive manner.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ans: Normally, people thought both crow and hemlock tree are auspicious. But when the dust of snow from hemlock tree fell on poet, he took it in other way. He was depressed and sorrowful but the moment the crow shook the hemlock tree and dust of snow fell on him, he felt unburdened and relieved.