![]() ![]() Come back down to reality the speaker implies, but enjoy odd moments of freedom. In some respects the poem is an extended METAPHOR, the birch trees representing creative life itself, their flexibility the fragile support each person needs to strike a balance and to overcome what can be a precarious human existence. The poet tests the reader again and again, typical Frost, living up to his famous quote that poetry ‘plays perilously between truth and make believe.’ philosophical (the balance between reality and idealism).Īlthough the majority of the poem is written in IAMBIC PENTAMETER, there are considerable movements away from the steady rhythm in certain lines, which we’ll explore later on line by line in the analysis.īirches develops a subtle tension as a result of this deviation alongside meaning, the reader never really knowing if the tree branches will break and crash, due to natural causes, or if the boy’s swinging on them is pure fantasy or not. personal (the boy ‘conquering’ the trees),ģ. ![]() naturalistic (the ice-storm’s effect on the birch trees),Ģ. In the words of the poet himself, Birches is ‘two fragments soldered together ‘, that is, he first intended the poem to have two definite angles – one concentrating on the ice-storm bending birch branches, the other detailing the boy swinging on them.įrost decided to stick to a single, simple title and, as it stands, Birches became one long exploration of the speaker’s relationship to the Truth, split into three aspects viz-a-viz:ġ. It is one of the most popular of Frost’s BLANK VERSE creations and was first published in 1916 in his book Mountain Interval. ![]() Birches is a poem that takes you into the woods and nearly up to heaven. ![]()
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