Frost's "Birches"
- Created by: harkiratshergill
- Created on: 25-01-21 03:43
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- Speaker: older man recollecting past experiences, a freer time
- Visual elements people can relate to
- Easy to understand, plain style - modern poet
- Talks about
- Doesn’t want to stay in heaven but go toward and then come back down to Earth
- wanting to go “Toward heaven”: reveals religious skepticism
- Plot:
- seeing birch trees bending → making him think of his childhood
- Imagining boys swinging them - something he used to do when he was a kid
- Trees bending back and forth - motion, mechanism
- Figurative language (metaphors, symbolism)
- Branch hitting him in the face - nostalgia
- “And life is too much like a pathless wood… From a twig’s having lashed across…
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