Birches Tone

The great children's author Dr. Seuss once said “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.” Robert Frost shows this message in the free verse poem Birches. In the poem Frost describes his walk through a forest in the dead of winter. He speaks about how the Birch trees remind him of his youth when he would swing on the branches. Throughout the poem Frost goes between the actual world and then his escape to his youth were he is carefree and has his whole life in front of him. In Birches Robert Frost conveys a tone of hopefulness towards the end of his life through the use of imagery, diction ,and details.

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The author can paint descriptions of a characters feelings and past or future. I imagine the birches as the embodiment of the man. In the first two lines Robert Frost says ¨Birches When I see birches bend to left and right across the lines of straighter darker trees,¨ I envision these branches being older and weaker which makes them comparable man in sorrow. This excerpt gives you a picture of what the man is in present time where he is weaker and older than he used to be. Towards the halfway point of this poem you start to learn about a little boy who entertains himself by swinging on the branches. In a particular line you can start to recognize a description of the boy “Some boy too far from town to learn baseball,/Whose only play was what he found himself” (line 25 and 26) Frost says that he was once this boy who swang from branch to branch in the forest. In this poem the boy is a symbol for frost and how he was noticeably adventurous when he was younger. From this piece we see what Frost is hopeful for and how his life was better when he was younger. Soon after, as we transition into the last section of this poem where the boy falls from the tree. Frost tells us in his own way that life has ups and downs and that even though you may be limited in your physical capacity do not limit your mind “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 “(lines 52-57). This last part gives you a picture of what happens when Frost looks to his past. He becomes more hopeful when he goes in his mind back to his Birch swinging