Many authors use diction and imagery in different ways to show a certain image through their words. Throughout the poem “Birches” Robert Frost uses imagery to vividly describe the trees and how “when [he] sees the birches bend to left and right/ Across the lines of straighter darker trees, / [He] likes to think some boy’s been swinging them.” (Frost 1-3). Frost uses many descriptive words to make the image clear to the reader. For example when describing the changing of the weather he states “the sun’s warmth makes them shed their crystal shells/ Shattering and avalanching on the snow crust/ such heaps of broken glass to sweep away.” (10-12). Furthermore there is use of metaphors. In the text the use of metaphor is comparing the trees crystal