Birches


Birches

The Poem Birches
This is a specific example of Robert Frost poetry by one of America's most famous poets. This section provides a selection of different types of Robert Frost poetry including the following famous poem by Robert Frost. This section of Robert Frost poetry and poems have been selected to illustrate the great work of this famous poet. The following Robert Frost poem Birches  can be used as an interesting example of Robert Frost poetry.
 

The poem Birches
 

 When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.
Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. They click upon themselves
As the breeze rises, and turn many-coloured
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.
Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells
Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves:
You may see their trunks arching in the woods
Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground,
Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.
But I was going to say when Truth broke in
With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm,
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.
One by one he subdued his father's trees
By riding them down over and over again
Until he took the stiffness out of them,
And not one but hung limp, not one was left
For him to conquer. He learned all there was
To learn about not launching out too soon
And so not carrying the tree away
Clear to the ground. He always kept his poise
To the top branches, climbing carefully
With the same pains you use to fill a cup
Up to the brim, and even above the brim.
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.
So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
It's when I'm weary of considerations,
And life is too much like a pathless wood
Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
From a twig's having lashed across it open.
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
 

 

The Poem Birches - Example of Robert Frost Poetry
Poetry written such as the poem Birches is a piece of literature written by the American poet Robert Frost in meter or verse expressing various emotions which are expressed by the use of variety of techniques including metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia. The emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the use of techniques such as repetition, meter and rhyme are what are commonly used to distinguish Robert Frost poetry from Robert Frost prose. Poems often make heavy use of imagery and word association to quickly convey emotions. A famous example of Robert Frost poetry is the poem Birches.

The Poem Birches - Example of Structure of Robert Frost Poetry
The structure used in an Robert Frost poem varies with different types of poetry and can be seen in the above example of the poem Birches. The structural elements might include the line, couplet, strophe and stanza. Robert Frost Poetry combines the use of language and a specific structure to create an imaginative and expressive poem such as Birches . The structure used in some Poetry types are also used when considering the visual effect of a finished poem.
 

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