Dust of Snow by Robert Frost

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.

Soft Snow

by William Blake

I walked abroad in a snowy day;

I asked the soft snow with me to play;

She played and she melted in all her prime,

And the winter called it a dreadful crime.

Define tone. Then compare or contrast the tone in the poems above. Describe both Frost's tone and Blake's tone. Do you see similarities in their attitudes toward snow? Differences? Write a well-developed paragraph using examples from the poems.