Similarities Between Birches And Birches

Nature, there is just something about it that intrigues all of us. Whether it be the changing of the leaves during fall, the first snowy morning during winter or the birth of new life during the spring. We all have our different ways of connecting to nature and expressing those connections. In the poem Spring and All by William Carlos Williams he is expressing his thoughts and emotions about spring. While in the poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost he expresses the connections one can make with a snowy winter night. During this essay comparisons and contrasts will be made between these two poems and how they express their connections with nature.

An overdone theme throughout literature and art is the struggle between ourselves and the overbearing weight of reality. However, Robert Frost’s poem, “Birches,” is one of the best examples of the message through his use of symbolism and diction in the speaker’s train of thought. Frost creates a flowing conversation on the reality of how much control one can possess in their existence versus the illusion of complete control. By utilizing purposeful symbolism and diction, Frost brings relatability and subtly to the power struggle contemplated in “Birches.” Symbolism is a major component of Frost’s style and more often than not, his poems allude to a common, yet significant, issue of human existence.

The Use of Literary Devices in Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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.

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

Robert Frost also shows his touch of imagery in the poem, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”.

Have you ever smelt a certain scent or heard a certain song and it brought a specific memory or feeling to you? The poem “Birches” is about Birch trees that the author, Robert Frost, connected to his childhood. Frost wants the reader to see his vision of the birch trees. In order for Frost to display his vision he uses elements of style. The reader is able to make the connection that the author is making between the birch trees and his childhood because of the way the poem is written. Frost uses specific words for the reader to understand and imagine the scene in front of them. The author presents a longing tone towards his childhood through the use of diction, imagery, and language.

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

“Birches”, written by Robert Frost in 1913 and published as part of his Mountain Interval collection, is a poem of childhood naivety. The euphonic piece explores the use of abundant writing techniques, all of which contribute to its layers of complexity. The speaker of this poem is focused on birch trees, hoping that they have been bent by a young boy swinging them; however, the speaker is fully aware of the “Truth”, knowing that they have indeed been bent down by an ice-storm. Wishing to go back in time to the days in which he himself would “swing” birch trees, the speaker contemplates more profound meanings of this swinging. A tendency found in Frost’s writing is an implementation of nature, often utilized as either the focus of the work or just an auxiliary motif, resulting in quasi-transcendental themes. Being one of his most beloved works, Robert Frost’s “Birches” is a poem which, upon analysis of its complex use of poetic and literary devices, reveals a culmination of distinct themes.

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.

Robert Frost said many times throughout his life that all men share a common bond. In his poem “The Tuft of Flowers” he analyzes the potential of such a bond, in first person. Frost turns an everyday common job, into discovering a common bond with another laborer. The author uses a comparison between aloneness with a sense of understanding to demonstrate his theme of unity between two men. In another one of Frost’s poems “Birches” he imagines walking through the woods looking at all the trees, and seeing the top bending towards the ground. When he sees this he imagines they are bending from kids swinging on them, rather then what is really happening to them. It can be analyzed that Frost had a very definitive appreciation for nature, and a very broad imagination.

Frost’s use of alliteration, personification, and imagery definitely conveyed the speaker’s attitude towards the woods. The reader believes Frost wrote about the woods to show how peaceful and calming it is in an isolated place such as the woods. Most people live in crowded neighborhoods or over-populated places, but living in a secluded area decreases the stress of others outside their household. Because of how isolated the woods are, they can worry about themselves compared to worrying and stressing on the outside

“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”.

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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