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எங்கள் ஆசிரியர்களுடன் 1-ஆன்-1 ஆலோசனை நேரத்தைப் பெறுங்கள். டாப்பர் ஆவதற்கு நாங்கள் பயிற்சி அளிப்போம்

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inspiration
hemlock
crow
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snow
tragedy
saved
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Robert Frost
New Hampshire
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“Dust of Snow” is a poem written by . It is was first published in 1923 in his collection of poems called .  It is divided into two stanzas with lines each.

In the poem, the speaker experiences a scene from nature that is seemingly trivial but has a significant on him. The first stanza explains how a on a tree shakes down some dust on him on a winter day. The speaker was feeling gloomy and remorseful when the incident took place. He had been spending his day being a pessimist. However, in the second stanza, we see that the  in which the crow shook down the snow dust had given his  a change of mood. He realises the importance of life and the need to survive. The speaker claims that the incident had invariably a part of the day he had regrettably ruined.
 
Despite the existing metaphors of a crow being a symbol of and death, we learn that it becomes the speaker's saviour and a source of .