Tuesday, March 23, 2010

" Birches"

In this poem, it explain and express many things in different ways. When you hear the word birches, what comes to mind. Birch is ay of various deciduous trees or shrubs of the genus Betula, native to the Northern Hemisphere and having unisexual flowers in catkins, alternate, simple, toothed leaves, and bark that often peels in thin papery layers. The poem explains description to a fanciful explanation of why the birches are bowed, and it concludes with exploration of a person's existence in the world.
The main image of this poem is of a series of birch trees that have been bowed down so that they no longer stand up straight but rather they look curved around. The author quickly establishes that he knows the real reason that this has happened—ice storms have weighed down the branches of the birch trees, causing them to bend over, he is referring the imagine as something else entirely has happened. the poet expalin the poem as a young boy has climbed to the top of the trees and pulled them down, riding the trees as they droop down and then spring back up over and over again until they become arched over. This tension between what has actually happened and what the poet would like to have happened, between the reality and fantasy world, runs throughout Frost's poetry and gives the poem philosophical dimension and meaning far greater than that of a simple meditation on birch trees.

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