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What do the ‘crow’ and ‘hemlock’ represent — joy or sorrow? What does the dust of snow that the crow shakes off a hemlock tree stand for?
The ‘crow’ and ‘hemlock’ represent sorrow. The snow of dust that the crow shakes off from the hemlock tree stands for joy. Frost represents nature in a very unconventional manner in this poem. He expresses his feelings through the ‘hemlock tree’ and crow which symbolizes sorrow.