Robert Frosts poems are quite simple, dealing with everyday situations and emotions, yet taking them to another level of exploration. He looks at aspects of nature and then converts them into symbols to use in his poems, thus making them completely relevant to our everyday lives and easy to make sense of.
Dust of Snow has as its main themes:
communication between nature and humans. nature healing and helping with negative human emotions. the significance of small natural events
Dust of Snow with its short neat form, rhyming lines and rhythmic beat is simplicity itself. It reflects the rather bleak, minimalist imagery.
There's the speaker, the man, under a tree. It's probably winter, there's snow on the tree, an evergreen pine called a hemlock, and a crow has happened to send some snow dust down on the man.
Whether it falls on to his head or down his neck is unknown because it's not really relevant to the poem. What is important is the way that crow makes it happen, but once again, the reader is left to imagine the bird's specific action.
Whether it be the crow preening, merely shaking, flying off, or landing, or readjusting its feet on a branch, somehow a light dusting of snow is the result, and it lands on the speaker.
According to the excerpt, Anthony's family is angry at him for some reason, perhaps because of the hobby or profession he took up: sports photography.
Anthony certainly hopes to be forgiven, making the argument that he and his family are not so different, the two of them like related activities: the family likes sports, and he likes sports photography.
