Poem -1
Dust of snow
Q1.What is a "dust of snow" ?
Ans : "Dust of snow" is a fine particles of snow.
Q2.What changed the mood of the poet?
Ans: The dust of snow changed the mood of the poet
Q 3 How does Frost present nature in the poem 'Dust of Snow'?
Ans: The poet presents nature as a positive medium of change.
Q4.What does hemlock tree represent?
Ans: Hemlock tree represents sorrow.
5. What do the 'crow' and the 'hemlock' represent? What does the dust of snow that the crow shakes off a hemlock tree stand for?
Answer: The 'crow' and the 'hemlock' represent sorrow. The dust of snow represents joy and hope.
Central idea -
"dust of snow" is a beautiful short poem composed by "Robert Frost" . this poem expresses the significance of small things in changing one's mood. the poet has mentioned crow and hemlock tree in this poem that are believed to be a symbol of bad men.
Extract Based Questions
Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow:
1. The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
a. What did the crow do to the hemlock tree?
b. What was there on the tree at that time?
c. Where do you think was the poet then?
d. Name the poem and the poet.
Answer:
a. The crow shook the hemlock tree.
b. There was snow in the tree at that time.
c. Then the poet was under a hemlock tree.
d. The name of the poem is ‘Dust of Snow’ and the poet is ‘Robert Frost’.
2: Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
a. What had given the poet ‘a change of mood’?
b. What had the poet thought of that day?
c. How was some part of the day saved for the poet?
d. What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
Answer:
a. The falling of dust of snow on the poet had changed his mood.
b. He had felt sad about that day. But the fall of snow-dust changed his mood.
c. He stopped ruing the day and his mood changed.
d. The rhyme scheme of this stanza is ‘abab’.
Short Answer Questions
Question 1 .What did the poet think of the day before the fall of dust of snow on him? ( कवि ने धूल के बर्फ के गिरने से पहले के दिन के बारे. में क्या सोचा था? )
Answer->: The poet thought the day was going to be bad and gloomy, but the fall of dust of snow changed his mood. (कवि ने सोचा था कि दिन खराब और उदास होगा, लेकिन धूल के बर्फ के गिरने से उनका मूड बदल गया।)
Question 2. What is the central idea of the poem?कविता का केंद्रीय विचार क्या है?
Answer : The central idea of the poem is that small changes in nature can affect our lives and change our mood. कविता का केंद्रीय विचार यह है कि प्रकृति के छोटे-छोटे बदलाव भी हमारे जीवन को प्रभावित कर सकते हैं और हमारे मूड को बदल सकते हैं।
Question 3 What do the ‘crow’ and ‘hemlock’ symbolise? कौआ और हैमलॉक क्या दर्शाते हैं?
Answer : The crow and hemlock symbolize elements of nature that are used as symbols in the poem. The crow represents darkness and gloom, while the hemlock is a poisonous tree.
कौआ और हैमलॉक प्रकृति के तत्व हैं जो कविता में प्रतीक के रूप में उपयोग किए गए हैं। कौआ अंधकार और उदासी का प्रतीक है, जबकि हैमलॉक एक प्रकार का पेड़ है जो विषाक्त होता है।
Question 4. What does the poet mean when he says ‘saved some part of the day’?
कवि का क्या मतलब है जब वह कहता है कि 'दिन का कुछ हिस्सा बच गया'?
Answer : The poet means that the fall of dust of snow changed his mood and he was able to save some part of the day, which was initially gloomy.
कवि का मतलब है कि धूल के बर्फ के गिरने से उनका मूड बदल गया और उन्होंने दिन का कुछ हिस्सा बच लिया, जो पहले खराब और उदास था।
Question 5 .Where was the crow sitting and what did it do?
कौआ कहाँ बैठा था और उसने क्या किया?
Answer : The crow was sitting on a hemlock tree and it flapped its wings, causing the dust of snow to fall on the poet.
कौआ एक हैमलॉक के पेड़ पर बैठा था और उसने अपने पंखों को हिलाया, जिससे धूल के बर्फ के कण कवि पर गिरे।