Thursday, March 18, 2010
Birches by Robert Frost
In this poem I feel that it is has something to do with nature being that it is compared to a tree but ,at the same time it is describing a sense of freedom.A sense of reminiscing and wishing to go back in time . You could visualize this feeling when he wrote" I like to get away from earth awhile".Wanting to go back in time and start things over when they aren't going the way they should be . This I believe is everyones wish but. unfortunately life doesn't happen that way. The same way ones a tree looses its branches and dries out its gone
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Yes, though not so much about going back in time--youth is figured here as representing a certain state of mind, attitude--a way of being/thinking--that it could be valuable to hold on to. Though of course we all must take on responsibilities, as well. Notice the contrasting image patterns throughout the poem--balance between a youthful and more mature states of awareness, reality and imagination. Also, see Diana A's blog.
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