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Birches


"" by Robert Frost is a nostalgic poem filled with fond memories and fantasies, yet at the same time the speaker reveals his longing to escape. Frost sets up a conversation with himself using dialogue between his sensible, knowing self and his fantasizing, nostalgic self. At first the poem seems to be just an account for all of the leaning with none standing straight. Frost would like to think that a child at play bent the trees, probably to escape the truth that nature destroys itself. The idea of trees being bent by ice and snow is much less romantic than the idea of a young boy enjoying himself, teaching himself some lessons about Physics and life. This idea of nature's ...

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to escape from the reality of the destruction of the earth. For these reasons, this poem illustrates the battle of the speaker between the youthful thoughts of fantasy and the older, more plausible, facts of reality.
The description of the boy swing from branch to branch could also be construed as a metaphor: a boy's actions swinging from represents his learning through feeling out situations and making mistakes while growing. Of course, a boy will learn of balance and heights while climbing trees, but there is an underlying admission that he is growing up. Frost uses the natural side of things in climbing trees to parallel growing up and becoming a man. The
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description of the boy at play, "He learned all there was/To learn about not launching out too soon", "…climbing carefully"; "Kicking his way down through the air to the ground" shows many traits of learning through experience. The clever choice of words in "with the same pains you use to fill a cup" he ...

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Added: 4/28/2006 08:04:03 AM
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