Why is Mrs. Pumphrey worried about Tricki?

Have there been times when you felt depressed or hopeless? Have you experienced a similar moment that changed your mood that day ?

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?

Again, what is “a hemlock tree”? Why doesn’t the poet write about a more ‘beautiful’ tree such as a maple, or an oak, or a pine?

What are the birds that are usually named in poems? Do you think a crow is often mentioned in poems? What images come to your mind when you think of a crow?

What is a “dust of snow”? What does the poet say has changed his mood? How has the poet’s mood changed?