10th Eng CBSE, First flight, Poem-1 Dust Of Snow 4 Solved extracts, paraphrase

Poem-1 DUST OF SNOW by Robert Frost 

Read the following stanzas and answer the given questions:

      Extract {1}

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

GLOSSARY

Dust of snow: fine particles of snow; hemlock tree: a poisonous plant.

PARAPHRASE

The poet is upset and sitting under the hemlock tree. Suddenly a crow sitting on the tree shakes the tree and the fine particles of snow from tree falls on the poet.

QUESTIONS

(a) Where is the poet sitting presently?

(b) How is the poet feeling presently?

(c) What do you know about the weather out there?

(d) What kind of a tree is hemlock ?

(e) How does the 'dust of snow' affect the poet?

(f) Give the rhyme scheme as used in the above stanza.

Answer 

A.Ans. The poet is sitting somewhere under a hemlock tree.

B.Ans. He is feeling sad and dejected.

C.Ans. It is quite cold naturally as the snow has covered almost everything out there.

D.Ans. It is kind of a poisonous and toxic palm tree.

E.Ans. The poet feels refreshed.

F.Ans. abab

Extract {2}

Has given my heart

A change of mood 

And saved some part 

Of a day I had rued.

GLOSSARY

Rued: felt sad about.

PARAPHRASET -he soft and cold touch of snow changes the poet's mood from sad to happy. He starts feeling refreshed.In this way a simple moment proves to be very significant and saves the poet's rest of the day from being wasted and held in regret.

QUESTIONS

(a) What had given the poet 'a change of mood'?

(b) What had the poet thought of that day?

(c) How was the rest of the day saved for the poet?

(d) What does the word 'rued' suggest?

Answer 

A.Ans. The falling of soft particle of snow over his head from the hemlock tree.

B.Ans. He had thought that his day would be ruined due to his dejection of mood.

C.Ans. It was saved as the crow's movement dropped some particles of snow over the poet's head and his mood was refreshed.

D.Ans. It suggests that the poet's day was going to be full of regret for some reasons.

Extract -3

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

(i) Who is 'me' in the given extract?

(a) Poet (b) Snow (c) Crow (d) Tree

(ii) What did the crow do to the hemlock tree?

(a) Shook the hemlock tree

(b) Cut down the hemlock tree

(c) Sat on the tree

(d) None of these

(iii) As the crow —------the hemlock tree the—---- of snow fell on the poet.

(iv) The word 'shook' means—---

Answer 

3. (i) (a) Poet

(ii) (a) Shook the hemlock tree

(iii) shook, small particles

(iv) move with force

Extract -4

Has given my heart

A change of mood 

And saved some part 

Of a day I had rued.

(i) What had given the poet a change of mood?

(a) The crow (b) Hemlock tree

(c) Dust of snowb(d) His regret

(ii) What were poet's thoughts of the day?

(a) He felt happy about the day.

(b) He felt sad about the day.

c) He felt monotonous.

(d) None of these

(iii) The poet stopped—------the day and his—-----changed 

(iv) The rhyming scheme of the extract is—-----

(a) acbc (b) cdcd (c) abcd (d) cbbc

Answer 

4. (i) (c) Dust of snow

(ii) (a) He felt sad about the day.

(iii) ruing, mood

(iv) (b) cdcd

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