Robert Frost provides vivid images of birches in order to oppose life's harsh realities with the

human actions of the imagination.

I recommend this poem to anyone interested in reading and studying poetry that meets many

requirements for excellence. However, it can not be understood from a quick once-over in a

classroom. Its meaning can only be revealed by reading it over and over in a quiet setting.

"Birches" has a profound theme and its sounds, rhythm, form, tone, and figures of speech

emphasize this meaning.

"Birches" provides an interesting aspect of imagination to oppose reality. Initially, reality is pictured

as birches bending and cracking from the load of ice after a freezing rain.

They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load

And they seem not to break; though once they are bow

sometimes I escape by daydreaming. I long for the day when I have my own business.

A good poem should stir the reader and touch the emotions. This poem advocates using the

ability to handle the bad things life dishes out.

view of imagination.

"Birches" consists mainly of blank verse: unrimed iambic pentameter, as in the lines below.

One major drawback of "Birches" is that the reader must be careful not to take the wording

Across the lines of straighter darker trees,

covering the tree branches. But this is where I ended the scene. I did not picture the shattering of

realism comes from the sound of passages like this one:

the narrator used to hang off of trees like Snoopy, and the statement "And so I dream of going

He learned all there was

Similes heighten both sides of the contrast between truth/reality and imagination/memory. The

Lines 3, 5, 23, and 30 each contain the word "them," meaning the birches. Lines 14 and 15 rime

I enjoyed reading "Birches," and I believe my reaction is both personal and aesthetic. This poem

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Approximate Word count = 2028
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)