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Question 1.
what is kernal
Answer: kernal is the heart of unix operating system
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Question 2.
What is a “dust of snow”? What does the poet say has changed his mood? How has the poet’s mood changed?
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Question 3.
How does Frost present nature in this poem? The following questions may help you to think of an answer. (i) 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? (ii) 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? (iii) 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?
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Question 4.
Have there been times when you felt depressed or hopeless? Have you experienced a similar moment that changed your mood that day?
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Question 5.
There are many ideas about how the world will ‘end’. Do you think the world will end some day? Have you ever thought what would happen if the sun got so hot that it ‘burst’, or grew colder and colder?
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Question 6.
For Frost, what do ‘fire’ and ‘ice’ stand for? Here are some ideas: greed avarice cruelty lust conflict fury intolerance rigidity insensitivity coldness indifference hatred
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Question 7.
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? How does it help in bringing out the contrasting ideas in the poem?
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