Thursday, May 6, 2010
Birches by Robert Frost
It is interesting to read this poem. One single item, birches, can make him think about it so much. From the point the birches is bending down, he imagines what makes it bent. In the beginning of the poem, he tells the truth that is the ice storm makes it bent. Then, he imagines that the lonely boy who is playing with a tree that make most of the trees bent down. He even gives the solution to solve the problem and compares to "fill a cup." In the last stanza, he expresses that he wants to be young again, so he can swing the birches. Maybe seeing the bending birches makes Robert Frost thinks about his youth memory.
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I think that this idea of a lost youth has something to do with the poem. I also think that he has used the climbing of the trees to make us think about life and love and the idea of heaven -- that place we go to after death. He points out that earth is the place for love. I think that this observation is a strong one. This is a good, thoughtful post.
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