As a child, one plays on the playground. The adventures happen amongst the swings. The escape and journey through the air causes the mind to wander and dream. The same way the speaker in Birches by Robert Frost uses his imagination to think of the dangling birches to be caused by a child at play. The feeling of going back and forth gives one the feeling of leaving earth for a little while and soaring above the trees. Feet towards the heavens and the feeling of one’s stomach dropping on the way down, gives a sense of release. As one goes through hard times, they look for that release from the world. The desire to get away is released through swinging to then be pulled back to earth. This same feeling was felt in Birches as a young boy rides …show more content…
As a child one can dream of what the want to be when they get older, what college they want to go to, and where they want to travel. Somewhere along the lines one loses this track of reaching those goals when they are faced with reality and soon enough one will see time has flown by and they are not where they want to be. What happened to that carefree mindset that one once had? Where did all the time go that one had planned to make all these dreams come true and make money and have that dream job? The speaker in Birches begins to think back on these simpler times of passing the time through play. When one becomes too old for play, they feel as if they are too old to dream and use their imagination. This loss of creativity causes one to lose sight of their dreams because the world told them they can not reach them. In everyday life each person is faced with this same issue for the fact there is always someone or something standing in the way of someone reaching their goals in life and becoming the person that have always wanted to be, but the question is will we allow those hurdles to stop us from pushing forward and transcending above all limits one is faced with or continue on this quest for …show more content…
That feeling of releasing all stress and anger that is caused by the daily world is what one longs for at the end of the day. Living in a dull lifestyle of repetition, the mind will consistently stay in that routine in which all creativity and imagination evaporates. The journey one takes as a young child up the tree to reach its peak to then ride down those birches gives an incomparable experience. As one grows older, there is a consistent thought of wanting to already be at one’s goal in life and being what one always wished to be, but in this process one gets stuck in a job, or in a routine that they dislike, but it is something that they have to do to get to where they want to be. If one looks at the life of the girl in the movie The Devil Wears Prada, the girl wanted to be a big writer someday, but found herself stuck in a job working for someone who treated her as a pet and had a devious personality in a way that it blocked many from their dreams. The girl lost herself in her job and in return she lost her friends, her boyfriend, her old life, and her real self worth. In many ways, people go through this everyday and we lose sight of our true goals in life. With the image of the boy, the man uses the wisdom of the young boy conquering the birches as a sign for him to go back and conquer his fears and hurdles that are preventing him from riding down his own personal
People working on their dreams will encounter unmotivated, ignorant individuals who will try to convince them that nothing is possible. Nonetheless, they overcame the prejudice and heavily relied on determination and motivation to succeed. Because they realize that it is achievable and crucial to accomplish their ambition. When comparing “The Rose that grew from Concrete” By Tupac Shakur and “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas, it is seen that both authors focus on how people must not give up, yet they have completely different perspectives which they express using personification and symbolism.
Aspirations distract from the requirements of daily life. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men George and Candy became fixated on their goals and forgot about their duties in the present. George and Candy’s minds were “popped in the future” and focused on earning money to buy their future house that
The Use of Literary Devices in Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
This is particularly evident within drifters were a families sense of identity is continuously hampered by their nomadic lifestyle with they must embrace as itinerant workers. Throughout the poem, the blackberry bush is constantly referred to as a symbol of hope that the family would settle into one location “when they came here, she held out her hand bright with berries”. The use of such a symbol brings to light the similarity between the drifter’s erratic life journey and the blackberry bush. As the family move into a town they begin to embrace there environment, only to end the experience as quickly as it began similarly to the blackberry bushes cycle of growth and ‘bright berries’ only to wither and die. This ultimately displays the emotional obstacles within a physical journey that reinforces our inner strength. Furthermore, the negative and positive aspects of the journey of life experienced by the characters are highlighted through the juxtaposing of the girls reaction to the decision to move, “the oldest girl was close to tear/ the youngest girl was beaming”. The positive element of the a family being an individual’s sense of support and identity is vaguely portrayed, however the overwhelming negative sense that such a family provides and undesirable predetermined script of one’s life is emphasised as in this instance it has impeded on the girls growth. This ultimately increases the responder’s awareness of the underlying emotional journey within every physical journey, increasing the inner strength of those that choose to take such
As humans, we all go through different challenges at some point in life. The main character, Tree-ear was not an exception. He had to deal with the death of Crane-man and robbery during the trip to Songdo. However, over times he has proved to himself that he was able to get out of depression and move on. The author makes Tree-ear face challenges and wins “mental battles”, in order to teach the audience the importance of seeing hardships as opportunities in life. Not only the lesson from the author reminds the importance of overcoming life struggles but also will encourage the audience to turn the biggest challenges into the biggest successes in
“Why do some people persist despite insurmountable obstacles, while others give up quickly or never bother to try” (Gunton 118)? A Raisin in the Sun, a play by Lorraine Hansberry, is a commentary on life and our struggle to comprehend and control it. The last scene in the play between Asagai and Beneatha contrasts two contemporary views on why we keep on trying to change the future, and reaches the conclusion that, far from being a means to an end, the real meaning of life is the struggle. Whether we succeed or not, our lives are purposeful only if we have tried to make the world a better place for ourselves and others- only, in other words, if we follow our dreams.
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a very well know poem by Robert Frost. The poem appears to be very simple, but it has a hidden meaning to it. The simple words and rhyme scheme of the poem gives it an easy flow, which adds to the calmness of the poem. The rhyme scheme (aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd) and the rhythm (iambic tetrameter) give the poem a solid structure. The poem is about the speaker’s experience of stopping by the dark woods in the winter evening with his horse and admiring the beauty of the fresh fallen snow in the forest. Then, the speaker projects himself into the mind of his horse, speculating about his horse’s practical concerns and the horse
The novel tells us that the fear of failure is the greatest obstacle to happiness. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” So often we hide behind excuses of not being able to do this or that, but the real story is that we are too afraid to take a chance. It is our
The first landscape feature that is described are, “the tops of trees” (Chopin 203). Trees are commonly attributed to nature and the symbol of life. Although the author has attributed the trees in this story with the literary term personification, as the trees, “were all aquiver with the new spring life” (Chopin 203). The author has attributed the trees to movement as the protagonist begins to desire to be in the cycle of nature. The protagonist relates to the trees because the trees are no longer weighed down by the heavy snow, thus allowing the trees to grow again, which is similar to the protagonist, as she is no longer confined by her husband, but she desires to be rebirthed (Lucas). Consequently, the protagonist was learning her desires to participate in life as an independent individual and to have restrictions a memory in the past. Therefore, the protagonist is beginning to participate down the path of becoming
make a decision and at the end of the day, the nature of the decision
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
Everyone has morals in life. Weather learned from nature, family, or past experiences. Robert Frost is well known for using different themes to teach morals in his poems. He uses imagery, emotions, different views, symbolism, and ever nature, to help create an image in one’s mind. The morals that these different types of themes create will make the reader face decisions and consequences as if they were in the poem themselves. His morals can be found in the poems, “The Road Not Taken,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” “Out, Out,” and “Acquainted with the Night.” Robert Frost’s poetry uses different themes to create morals which readers will use in daily life. “He is fairly taciturn about what happens to us after death, partly because he finds so
Starting small is a great way to see our lives from a different perspective, and build up imagination and motivation to allow ourselves to change. For example, Shel Silverstein’s poem Picture Puzzle Piece emphasizes how important one single piece can define who we are like a “small tuft of hair” or “the Velvet robe of a queen”. These pieces that come in all different sizes and shapes are incredibly important and it’s up us “puzzles” to work hard to hold on to them. However, sometimes we don’t notice their importance and they begin to disappear one by one, "and then - gone” forever. Unfortunately, for those like Joan Didionsept, ”he was on his way home from work - happy, successful, healthy - and then, gone” in an instant; she could no longer reconcile with her husband ever again. Without our puzzle pieces, we would be lost and disillusioned. Like Silverstein’s poem and Didionsept’s story, these stimulations openly inspire new ideas to be
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “ The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.
The third part of the poem begins with a more personal and philosophical tone. The speaker claims to have been such a youthful swinger of birches, an activity he can go back to only by dreaming. The birch trees, probably both ice-bent and boy-swung, stand for the order and control missing from ordinary experience. The "considerations" he is weary of are conflicting claims that leave him disoriented and stung. The desire to "get away from earth," importantly qualified by "awhile," shows a yearning for the ideal or perhaps for the imaginative isolation of the birch swinger. His "I'd like to