Dust of Snow

Robert Frost, the author of “Dust of Snow,” first published the poem under the title “A Favour” in the monthly literary journal, The London Mercury (1920), before including it in his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, New Hampshire (1923). Frost is one of the most well-known 20th-century American poets. He’s the sole poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, and he earned the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960. In 1961, Frost read a poem at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.

Frost, whose family moved from San Francisco to Massachusetts after his father died, has become almost synonymous with poems about the rural northeast region of the United States. “Dust of Snow” highlights Frost’s link to nature, as the lyric focuses on a person interacting with a crow, a hemlock tree, and the wintery weather. The poem’s main message centers on the themes The Relationship Between Humans and Nature, Managing Negative Feelings, and The Healing Powers of Nature. “Dust of Snow” isn’t a minor Frost poem, but it’s not as well-known as some of the other poems in New Hampshire such as “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” “

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