Birching

Corporal is derived from the Latin word corporālis bodily which is equivalent to corpor meaning, “of the human body; bodily; physical”, as defined by the dictionary. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines corporal punishment as, “punishment that involves hitting someone: physical punishment”. The Committee on the Rights of the Child in the General Comment No. 8 defines ‘corporal’ or ‘physical’ punishment as, “any punishment in which physical force is used and intended to cause some degree of pain

Spanking has a positive effect on children For many years parents have been disciplining their children in various ways. Discipline is required to train a child in doing what is right and staying away from what is wrong and dangerous. Discipline has always been used in order for the child not to grow up spoiled and choosy. Giving children what they want always is never a good thing, while teaching them that they cannot have everything teaches them patience. Discipline is very critical in

      Poets use imagery to convey meaning, feelings, and emotions. The contemporary poet best know for his use of imagery is Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken, opened the eyes of poetic readers and critics to Frost’s artistic creations. He uses forms of language such as diction and syntax to capture and move the reader.      When read literally Robert Frost’s Birches is the speakers observations of the birch trees in a calm New England setting. The

Analysis of Birches   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

The poem, “Birches” written by Robert Frost, depicts author’s personal desire to escape the normality of life through the mirage of climbing a birch tree. With distinctive use of diction, imagery, and figurative language, Frost manages to indirectly understand his way of perceiving life. His view of the normality and repetition that exists everyday is hidden within words written. When seeing Birch trees, bent by the cumbersome snow of the long winter, Frost likes to imagine a boy’s “been swinging

The poem presents to us the theme of escapism, as the child pictured in the poem escapes the harsh adult world by swinging on the swing, and imagining herself/ himself in the sky. The last line of the poem proves to us that what the author wrote as ‘down’ is actually the adult world and the harsh reality we live in – “Up in the air and down!” This poem encourages readers; it is telling them that you don’t need feathers to fly. All you need to have is imagination to achieve the goal your mind wants

To know the meaning of these two poems, “Mending Wall” and “Birches”, we first must understand what are these poems about on a literal level. “Mending Wall” tells about the story of a rock wall, that is build to separate two properties (the speaker and his neighbor) in the countryside, and something is always destroying it. On the other hand, we have the poem of “Birches” and the speaker talks about how he does not like how the birches bend because of the storm so he imagines that children are the

Birches I believe so much of poetry enlists the senses, beginning with the sense of sound. Whether it’s the rhythmic flow of the poem or the mere need to recite the words for a clearer understanding. The sense of sight can’t help but participate while one reads a poem. It’s like asking an artist to paint how he feels. Imagery is a key part of poetry creating a visual understanding. In the end poetry give a voice to the unsayable in our lives and indeed to life itself. After reading “Birches”

Next, we look at how Frost uses the story about a young boys life as a way to escape from the pains of his own life. In lines 23 through 41, Frost goes on an elaborate rant about what Birch trees are really good for, such as “I should prefer to have some boy bend them As he went out and in to fetch the cows”… “Some boy too far from town to learn baseball, Whose only play was what he found himself, summer or winter, and could play alone.” He even goes in to detail of how the boy would bend the trees

“Birches” is a poem written by Robert Frost that has a speaker, imagery, and symbols. The speaker in this poem is Frost. He explains his perspective of the birch trees in first person. Imagery is a word, phrase, or sentence that shows an experience or object. There are numerous examples of imagery in this poem. Symbols are something in the poem that stands for something else. There are various symbols in “Birches.” In “Birches,” Frost talks about how he can view birch trees in winter that have bent