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In the history of literature we can find different famous poets, among them we
can find Robert Frost as a seminal figure of the modernist poetry, one of his
most wonderful and appreciated works is “Dust of the Snow”. This poem has
Firstly, this poem is divided into two stanzas each one is a quatrain, the meter
of that poem is iambic diameter, it means that each line of this poem
consisting of two metrical feet and the first syllable is unstressed followed by
In addition, the rhyme scheme of this poem is ABAB and CDCD, it means
that for every four lines, the first and third lines will rhyme with each other
and the second and fourth lines will also rhyme with each other, for example:
Shook down on me B
In poetry we can find different themes like love, death, religion, passion,
historical issues, and others. Also, poetry has been another way to express
feelings and to reflect about life. In that order of ideas, we can find poems like
“Autumn Within” by Henry Wadsworth, this is an example to identify how
poets use poetry as a tool of expression and for that reason we are going to
Firstly, this poem is divided into three stanzas each one is a quatrain, the meter
of this poem is iambic tetrameter and the rhyme scheme of this poem is
ABAB, CDCD and DEDE it means that for every four lines, the first and third
lines will rhyme with each other and the second and fourth lines will also
On the other hand, this poem has some different interpretations. One of the
possible interpretations is that the author is melancholic because of his old age
and he compared the end of the spring to the end of his youth it is evident in
these lines:
that this poem expresses the change of life. For example, in the first part we
can identify that the author made a comparison between the weather stations
and the cycles of life. Also, in the second part the author show us the beauty
about changes through the birds because they move to another side, similar to
the courses that life could has, in some cases those courses could be good and
Finally, in the last part of the poem we can recognize how the shape of life
change, at the beginning we could see that the author missed his youth, and in
the last part the author just feel the silence of death, in that order of ideas, we
can say that the material life change, the youth and the old age finish; in that
part we just interpreted that life always changes and in that moment life
become spiritual in another shape, for example the death could be another way
to star living. To conclude, the author’s tone is melancholic and nostalgic and