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    This poem analyzes Robert Frost's "Birches" through three paragraphs. It describes the imagery of birch trees bending in the wind and ice storms. It notes the literary devices used, including alliteration, consonance, and assonance. It discusses the imagery of a boy swinging from the trees and how the speaker relates to memories of doing the same as a child. The speaker dreams of returning to the carefree days of climbing the birch trees but acknowledges that earth is the best place for love.

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    This poem analyzes Robert Frost's "Birches" through three paragraphs. It describes the imagery of birch trees bending in the wind and ice storms. It notes the literary devices used, including alliteration, consonance, and assonance. It discusses the imagery of a boy swinging from the trees and how the speaker relates to memories of doing the same as a child. The speaker dreams of returning to the carefree days of climbing the birch trees but acknowledges that earth is the best place for love.

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    This poem analyzes Robert Frost's "Birches" through three paragraphs. It describes the imagery of birch trees bending in the wind and ice storms. It notes the literary devices used, including alliteration, consonance, and assonance. It discusses the imagery of a boy swinging from the trees and how the speaker relates to memories of doing the same as a child. The speaker dreams of returning to the carefree days of climbing the birch trees but acknowledges that earth is the best place for love.

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    This poem analyzes Robert Frost's "Birches" through three paragraphs. It describes the imagery of birch trees bending in the wind and ice storms. It notes the literary devices used, including alliteration, consonance, and assonance. It discusses the imagery of a boy swinging from the trees and how the speaker relates to memories of doing the same as a child. The speaker dreams of returning to the carefree days of climbing the birch trees but acknowledges that earth is the best place for love.

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    Akshay Wuppuluri

    Moosman

    IB LA HL

    17 September 2021

    Birches Poem analysis


    This poem is in free verse format. This means that there is no rhyme scheme however

    there is Iambic pentameter.

    This poem starts with the description of what the speaker sees in the birch trees as they

    see the birches so fragile yet so study as they tilt back and forth. This speaker sees a boy

    swinging between them however these swringings between the trees doesn’t seem to keep

    them bent down but rather ice-storms do. There is lots of imagery in the next couple of lines as

    we can see white snow and opaque icicles with a hot winter sun in the morning with the falling

    rain. We also see some onomatopoeia as the trees click with the rising of the breeze. This

    breeze and clicking upon themselves turns the tree multi-colored and breaks their bark. The sun

    then melts the crystal shells as they start to avalanche and glass is swept up and this looks like

    an inner dome of heaven had fallen.

    In this entire poem, there are many different literary devices. These literary devices

    included alliteration as we see the repetition of the “c” sound, consonance and assonance with

    the repetition of the “s” sound, “h” sound, “k” sound, and the “a” sound.

    There is imagery of a little boy, who may have been the speaker when they were

    younger, swinging from the trees and going back and forth and left and right. The boy is alone

    for the passing of the seasons and the years. This boy was alone and unable to learn and do
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    things like a normal kid like play basketball. He thought that he had restrained and subdued the

    trees. He did so that the trees no longer had any stiffness. All the trees had been bent and not

    one was left. There were no more trees left for the boy to take over and swing on in joy. The

    boy learned that he would need to climb the trees but not so much as to put the tip of the tree

    to the ground. He would climb carefulls and at a small and steady pace. This steady pace and

    careful climbing is like trying to fill a cup to the brim.

    The boy flies forward with a switch as his feet come frontward. The speaker then relates

    to the boy by seeing himself in the boyas the speaker also remembered their times swinging

    from birch to birch. The speaker dreams of going back to this memory of enjoyment and

    satisfaction where they didn’t have to worry about anything and live life. They want to feel the

    wind in their face and cobwebs brushing their face. They want their eyes to water from the rush

    of the air blowing in their eyes. The speaker wants to get away from everything like the earth

    and their life. However the speaker doesn’t want this wish to be fully considered, understood,

    or granted. The speaker believes that earth is the best and only place for love to bloom and for

    love to take place. The speaker wants to live again and be able to climb the birch trees.

    The speaker wants to be careless and have fun and be able to climb and swing on the

    birch trees. They want to climb the branches with the snow and icicles. They want to go toward

    heaven rather than actually to it. They would rather go in the upward direction of heaven than

    actually go there. They want to go up, as high as they can until they just cannot anymore and

    the tree starts to dip downward. This goes up and down, toward heaven and back down to

    earth where they can spend their time.

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