Dust of Snow (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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Frost was proud of his small, compact poems that say much more than they seem to say; his 1923 volume New Hampshire gathers several of these, including “Fire and Ice,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” and one of the shortest of all, “Dust of Snow.” One sentence long, it occupies eight short lines and contains only thirty-four words, all but two of them monosyllabic, and all of them part of even a young child's vocabulary.
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock treeHas given my heart
A change of...
[The entire page is 727 words long]
See Also:
Robert Frost (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Robert Frost (Dictionary of World Biography)Robert Frost (Poetry)
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