Critical Appreciation Of The Poem Birches

By 1920 Frost was the most celebrated poet. Frost served as consult in poetry to the Library of Congress from 1958-59. According to blooms, Literature Frost is a quintessentially a modern poet in his adherence to language as it is actually spoken, the physiological complexity of his portraits, and in the degree to which his work is infused with layers of ambiguity and irony. Frost became a national celebrity. Frost received an invitation to recite his poem at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. Frost recited the following “He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding”. Robert Frost uses repetition, metaphors, anaphora, and personification to create a clear focus of

“Birches” the poem rewards multiple readings and leaves enormous amount for others to interpret the poem in their different views. When reading Birches the important moral of the poem emerges as if it’s building on as you read the poem. The theme of the poem is trying to reminisce his childhood and adolescence. When he is a full adult he sees the birches as bent and creates a visual of that maybe the boy swinging bent it. Which makes him remember his childhood. This poem contains no rhymes, but “Birches” is a blank verse that consists of 10 syllables per line that is followed by one unstressed and stressed syllable. “Birches” can be known as a lyric poem because Robert Frost shares his emotions about his childhood. “They click upon themselves as the breeze rises” (Frost, 7-8). The sound of the crackling branches contrasts the soft delicate scene of Frosts’ childhood memories. There are many similes shown, “trailing their leaves on the ground, like girls on hands and knees that throws their hair, before them over their heads to dry in the sun” (18-20). “Life is too much like a pathless, wood, where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs” (44-48). What Frost is showing through this simile is that life sometimes lacks amusement especially as one becomes an adult. A contrast is shown between his imagination vs the reality that has been expressed in lines 1-2. “Such heaps of broken glass you’d think the inner dome of heaven had fallen” (12-13). This quote means that imagination is bendable and so are the birches. The reality is displaying the facts, “but I was going to say when the Truth broke in” (20). This line is unique because Frost personifies the reality by capitalizing the letter T in Truth. Frost uses repetition in his poems to show the significance if his imagining childhood life. He repeats “Birches, bend, boy’s swinging, bend them, swinger of birches”. Imagery can be