DUST OF SNOW_ROBERT FROST

A bird of inauspicious symbol

DUST OF SNOW-ROBERT FROST

The way a crow         

Shook down on me     

A type of poisonous plant that has small white flowers. Not liked naturally

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

 

What change does the act of the crow brought over the heart of the poet?

Has given my heart

A change of mood

But the result is POSITIVE, it actually made his day a nice one. It brought the counter result, actually the poet was heavy on this morning, but because of the dusting of snowflakes by the crow has turned it into joyful day.

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued

 Robert Frost is an American poet known for simplicity of thought and natural inclination towards Nature. Almost all the poems he wrote he said,"There is hardly a natural poem in which there is not presence of man". It means that thought he writes nature poems, actually there is some deeper learning into them for mankind.

The present poem 'Dust of Snow' also has a presence of man in it. Here it is very important to get to know that we have graded the things around us in way we like, feel or sense them. A few flowers we like tremendously at the same time some of them we even do not like to look at too.

some of the fruits we love  to taste, but a few of them we even don't like to touch. We smell some flowers and feel like transported to some other world, but a few of them we hate to smell.

All such grading and branding of things in nature has been done according to our whim. Because we like them, or they are of use to us, we like them. As many of such things there we don't like only because they are of no use to us.

It shows our selfish and conservative mind set. 

If the things are there present in the nature, they are there because they have to be there. They are not simply there for our selfish utilization nor even they are made exclusively for us. The god created the living and non-living things at His will and either we should respect them or at least should not hate them.

But for that we need to have POSITIVISM in us. It is our mind that creates and turns our feeling into joyous or  painful. We should not hold some other things responsible for our sorrow and painful feelings.

In that sense, no bird should be inauspicious and no tree should be called poisonous. They are the natural entities with inert, congenital qualities. It is our reciprocation with them needs to be revised so that we can see at them AS THEY ARE. 

Because the poet loves nature, he doesn't find any in-auspiciousness into it. And when we have our deep respect for the existing things around us, they have the propensity to maintain our mood happy, with joy for ever and they are capable to give out incessant feeling of sweetness.

That's why even a bird like CROW and the tree like HEMLOCK could change the pensive mood of the poet into a positive one and saved his day which was about to go in vain.

Nature possesses abundance sweetness, but only we need to be equally sweet at heart. Then even a trifle, a minute, and the microscopic thing can pour non-stop happiness onto us.

The act of dusting the snow particles onto the poet by the crow from the Hemlock tree changed his sorrowful heavy heart into happy one.

                                                                       Arun Thakare