The Birches By Robert Frost

Birches

Birches By Robert Frost

• Reveals a sense of maturity, and getting older.

• Mentions climbing to heaven. Which could mean getting closer to god.

• He speaks of returning. Wants to get as close to god as possible but doesn’t want to die.

Themes

Structure and techniques

• Poem does not rhyme

• Introduction lasts 6 lines

• Poem creates images of the trees twisting

• Metaphor- “as the stir cracks and crazes their enamel”

• Metaphor- “Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away”

• Simile- “life is too much like a pathless wood”

• Simile- “Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.”

Metaphors• Metaphor- “as the stir cracks and crazes their

enamel”

• Metaphor- “Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away”

Similes• Simile- “life is too much like a pathless wood”

• Simile- “Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun.”

More techniques • Personification- “But I was going to say when Truth broke in

With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm”• Alliteration- “Cracks and Crazes” • Repetition- “Over and over”

Birches

By Robert Frost

By Matt Young