Comparing Kinnell And Robert Frost

The “roar of water” sounded in their ears as they slept, which illustrates the connection between the father and his son. The tranquil sound is heard by both the father and his son and is enjoyed by the both of them. The sound is something that they come to the camp to enjoy together. The sounds of water connect streams and lakes, which is a metaphor for the connection between the father and his son. After the boy has told his father that they cannot fish together, they sleep against a “floor of pine needles”, which shows the discomfort that they boy feels in letting his father down. The selection of detail highlights the strain in their relationship and the guilt the son feels in the situation. The use of detail at the beginning and end of the passage demonstrate the strong relationship that the two have and how they feel discomfort with hurting each

The irony of the poem is within in the language and creates contradicting ideas that the speaker can make any noise in the house, but only sexual noises wake the child. There are not any big words to try and confuse the reader, but with this the important words are hidden in this plan language. The senses are defiantly appealed to in this poem, “touch” is ironically an important word. When the spouses are done making love they are touching one another as “he appears” ready to snuggle. Touch comes up several times in the poem and always is used in a sensual and vivid way. “touch arms across his little, startlingly muscled body”, “Touching along the length of our bodies”, “Familiar touch of the

Frost also uses the trees in this poem to represent a way to get away from the cares and trials of life on Earth. He talks of getting away and coming back to start over as if climbing “towards heaven”. He desires to be free from it all, but then he says that he is afraid that the fates might misunderstand and take him away to never return. This is like most of us today. We want to go to Heaven, but we don’t want to die to get there.

Frost has a compelling way of writing the poem, in the beginnings of the poem there is a lot of metaphors and descriptions of the setting and the saw and the boy. Once the boy is injured

poems deal with a variety of themes – life, love, loss and pain along with the

The power of the poet is not only to convey an everyday scene into a literary portrait of words, but also to interweave this scene into an underlying theme. The only tool the poet has to wield is the word. Through a careful placement and selection of words, the poet can hopefully make his point clear, but not blatantly obvious. Common themes of poems are life, death, or the conflicting forces thereto. This theme could never possibly be overused because of the endless and limitless ways of portraying life or death through the use of different words.

In this poem written by author Robert Frost, the poem focuses on the theme and

In a metaphoric way, this can compare to that of our emotions, once we’ve had many hardships it can often fill our cups and to the brink of overflowing. The final transition to the third part of this poem is set when he states, “So was I once myself a swinger of birches./And so I dream of going back to be,” ( 41-42). Robert Frost shifts from talking about a young boy he imagines swinging on a birch tree, to himself as an older man. He seems to reflect on how he isn't young anymore, in a way reminiscing. He wishes he were out there swinging on trees like he was a boy again.

Frost first illustrates the use of symbolism through the bending of the birches in order to allude to a freedom from reality. In this manner, he begins by imagining that the shapes and bends of the birch trees were caused by a young boy climbing and swinging gleefully upon the trunks; as he once did. This moment of nostalgia allows him to reflect to his childhood, wistfully wishing to return to a more carefree time where he too was a “kicker of branches.” To emphasize this idea, he goes on to compare the climbing of the thick wood trunks, to attempting to reach up towards heaven. As a result of this, Frost desperately wishes to escape from the ground, and in a sense, the real world.

The speakers saying, “And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth” makes us the reader to believe that he isn’t just speaking of a different path in the woods but a choice that can have unforeseen consequences for his future. Frost uses a rhyme scheme of ABAAB which helped with the flow of the poem. The simple rhyme scheme made the poem pleasant and easily understandable. Frost also implores several literary devices throughout the poem.

On the surface, the poem "Birches" by Robert Frost is simply about a man who would like to believe that birch trees are bent from young boys swinging on them, despite the evidence that it is merely a result of the ice-storms. Even with this knowledge he prefers the idea of the boys swinging from the trees because he was a birch swinger years ago and continuously dreams of returning and experiencing those pleasant memories once again. From a more explored and analytical point of view, the birch trees symbolize life and serves as the speaker 's temporary channel of escape from the world and its harsh realities. The speaker uses his imagination to return to his innocent childhood. He hopes to relieve stress and prepare to face life and

Poetry is a literary medium which often resonates with the responder on a personal level, through the subject matter of the poem, and the techniques used to portray this. Robert Frost utilises many techniques to convey his respect for nature, which consequently makes much of his poetry relevant to the everyday person. The poems “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and “The mending wall” strongly illuminate Frost’s reverence to nature and deal with such matter that allows Frost to speak to ordinary people.

Frost uses a lot of imagery, for example in “Shattering and avalanching”. The writer tends to use a number of extended metaphors, for example in “Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow- crust” he then turns the metaphor into an extended metaphor by adding a new metaphor - “Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away”. ‘The swing’ doesn’t use as many literary devices.

The discursive blank-verse meditation "Birches" does not center on a continuously encountered and revealing nature scene; rather, it builds a mosaic of thoughts from fragments of memory and fantasy. Its vividness and genial, bittersweet speculation help make it one of Frost's most popular poems, and because its shifts of metaphor and tone invite varying interpretation it has also received much critical discussion, not always admiring. The poem moves back and forth between two visual perspectives: birch trees as bent by boys' playful swinging and by ice storms, the thematic interweaving being somewhat puzzling. The birches bent "across the lines of straighter darker trees" subtly introduce the theme of