Themes and Analysis of Birches In the adolescent years we are young, we are strong, tall and unbent
due to inexperience of childhood which is a very important and
necessary part of youth. "Birches" illustrates the author’s ability to
take the regular activities of life and transform it, giving it a much
deeper interpretation. The reader perceives the poem to refer to a
young country boy "whose only play was what he found himself," in this
situation, finding entertainment in riding birch branches. The poem,
though appearance may seem quite literal in language, is very
interpretive when closely viewed. “Birches” contains deeper themes of
life, love, aging and death as well as good and evil which are to be
conveyed in this essay.
The poem opens with a description of the activities of the young.
Frost contemplates the simplicity of childhood: “I like to think some
boy’s been swinging them.” When we are young we are erect and straight
such as the birch tree. The author implies the theme of aging by
imagery of “straighter and darker trees…” Frost vividly describes the
shape of the branches of the birch tree to show the overwhelming
weight of the ice storm. “Then bend them down to stay.” Frost uses the
“ice storms” to describe the power of the journey through life and its
toll that it takes. The author portrays the ice storms as dominant
over the submissive branches. Frost uses this graphic detail to imply
that the pla...
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...that life at its best is
climbing a birch tree when young, seeing things how they really are,
in black and white, without opinions shaped by life. “That would be
good going and coming …. One could do worse than be a swinger of
birches”
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
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May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. 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,
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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.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
For my movie review I chose the movie “Simon Birch”. The main stars of this movie are: Ian Michael Smith who played the role of Simon Birch, Joseph Mazello who played the role of Joseph Wenteworth, Ashley Judd who played the role of Rebecca Wenteworth, Jim Carrey who played the role of Joseph Wenteworth in his older years, Oliver Platt who played the role of Ben Goodrich, and David Strathairn who played Rev. Russell. This movie is a coming of age/Comedy-drama.
Death. Only two things are certain in life, death, and taxes. As the Human condition is concerned death is directly related to mortality. Mortality is in a sense the focus of all human existence. In most cases, the human mind inadvertently neglects this concept. In the true depth of mortality is hidden behind a shroud of humor. In the inquisitive, the brain creates a logical fallacy to cope with the concept. The basis of the human condition is mortality. The main points of the human condition are birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality. Birth, growth, and aspiration all stem from the concept of mortality.
regret. The idea of time and how it is finite is one of the main
The Japanese maple trees were subjects for much poetry and art in seventh century Japan. However, both world wars took their toll on the many different collections of these trees, and they were often used as firewood. By the end of the 1940s, many cultivars had disappeared. However, in the 1960s there was a return of interest and since then over 320 varieties of the Japanese maple have been developed from the native trees that were left.
the primal aspect of reality, as well as nature, life and death, desire, passion, sex, and aggression.
life it is your whole life. It is a sense of being with God. It is not
happiness, and can lead to the choice of death over life. Hopefully, we will fully
Frost uses different stylistic devices throughout this poem. He is very descriptive using things such as imagery and personification to express his intentions in the poem. Frost uses imagery when he describes the setting of the place. He tells his readers the boy is standing outside by describing the visible mountain ranges and sets the time of day by saying that the sun is setting. Frost gives his readers an image of the boy feeling pain by using contradicting words such as "rueful" and "laugh" and by using powerful words such as "outcry". He also describes the blood coming from the boy's hand as life that is spilling. To show how the boy is dying, Frost gives his readers an image of the boy breathing shallowly by saying that he is puffing his lips out with his breath.
pain and suffering. In life there is despair, confusion and grief. In just one day a man experiences
body, containing within it the key to understanding what it means to exist in this world
sense of hope and destiny and a glimpse of heaven on earth. The choice of
7 . So human existence , thoughts , feelings etc. . only the end result of these principles and natural laws of the universe that deals with matter , energy, energy flow and chemical reactions in the end , life as a result showed.
“When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.” Childhood is represented when the branches swing Frost thinks there is a boy swinging on them. Adulthood is represented by straighter darker trees because darker is a reference to older trees just by the nature of the color as compared to a birch tree which is white or light in color. “But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay. Ice storms do. Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning. After a rain. They click upon themselves As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel....
Nature is an important theme in every frost poem. Nature usually symbolizes age or other things throughout Frost’s poems. In lines 5-10 it says, “Often you must have seen them loaded with ice a sunny winter morning after a rain. They click upon themselves as the breeze rises, and turn many-colored as the stir cracks and crazes their enamel. Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells.” This demonstrates how nature can sometimes symbolize something. Also in lines 29-33 it says, “ By riding them down over and over again until he took the stiffness out of them, and not one but hung limp, not one was left for him to conquer. He learned all there was to learn about not launching too soon.” In lines 44-48 it says, And life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig’s having lashed across it open. I’d like to get away from earth for a while.”
life and shape me as a person into becoming the best version of myself. The first virtue of three