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.
sense of hope and destiny and a glimpse of heaven on earth. The choice of
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.
regret. The idea of time and how it is finite is one of the main
life it is your whole life. It is a sense of being with God. It is not
pain and suffering. In life there is despair, confusion and grief. In just one day a man experiences
happiness, and can lead to the choice of death over life. Hopefully, we will fully
Frost begins the poem by describing a young boy cutting some wood using a "buzz-saw." The setting is Vermont and the time is late afternoon. The sun is setting and the boy's sister calls he and the other workers to come for "Supper." As the boy hears its dinnertime, he gets excited and cuts his hand on accident. Immediately realizing that the doctor might amputate his hand, he asks his sister to make sure that it does not happen. By the time the doctor arrives, it is too late and the boy's hand is already lost. When the doctor gives him anaesthetic, he falls asleep and never wakes up again. The last sentence of the poem, "since they (the boys family and the doctor) were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" shows how although the boys death is tragic, people move on with their life in a way conveying the idea that people only care for themselves.
body, containing within it the key to understanding what it means to exist in this world
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....
the primal aspect of reality, as well as nature, life and death, desire, passion, sex, and aggression.
life and shape me as a person into becoming the best version of myself. The first virtue of three
...torms do.” These lines display imagery as well as the theme of imagination. The speaker clearly knows that the birches are not bent because of boys swinging on them, yet he continues to imagine so. Throughout the majority of this poem the speaker is imagining that boys were swinging on the birches causing them to be bent. It is clear the he longs of being a “swinger”. He misses his old self and childhood so much that he cannot help but to imagine and long.