HI Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Harsh Voice, Omen, Myna
13 Jul 2021
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The poet was upset as he sat under a hemlock tree. Suddenly a crow sitting on the tree shook the tree and the fine particles of snow from tree fell on the poet. The soft and cold touch of snow changed the poet"s mood from sad to happy. In this way a simple moment proved to be very significant and saved rest of the day of poet from being wasted and spent in gloom. The black crow is commonly a symbol of death and fear. Since the crow is not associated with goodness, it is ironic that in this poem, it is doing a good deed by shaking off the snow. Robert frost didn"t choose to use an oak, maple or pine tree. Instead he chose the hemlock tree which is usually associated with poison and toxicity. Robert frost uses the elements of the fearsome crow and poisonous hemlock tree to do something good.
