Frost's "Birches" 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureAmerican LiteratureGCSENone Created by: harkiratshergillCreated on: 25-01-21 00:59 Birches Speaker: older man recollecting past experiences, a freer time Visual elements people can relate to Easy to understand, plain style - modern poet 1 of 4 Talks About Doesn’t want to stay in heaven but go toward and then come back down to Earth wanting to go “Toward heaven”: reveals religious skepticism 2 of 4 Plot seeing birch trees bending → making him think of his childhood Imagining boys swinging them - something he used to do when he was a kid Trees bending back and forth - motion, mechanism 3 of 4 Figurative language (metaphors, symbolism) Branch hitting him in the face - nostalgia “And life is too much like a pathless wood… From a twig’s having lashed across it open.” Twig lashing against your eye: used as a metaphor to indicate... The metaphor of going through life, facing complications of life Kids not thinking about difficulties of life while playing and bending trees “Often you must have seen them / Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning… You’d thinking" Trees sagging underweight of ice When an ice storm hits, “cracks and crazes” echoes the sound of alliteration of the cracks on the trees” { literary device analysis example} “But I was going to say when Truth broke in… As he went out and in to fetch the cows--” Truth = harsh reality of the ice storms breaking the trees instead of the boys Time takes a toll on everything The conflict between time, age, youth, death interrupts him from forgetting reality - Broke → draws back to the breaking of the trees Poem references itself Truth → nostalgia of youth thinking about boys 4 of 4
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