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A representation of the life cycle is delineated in every poem by Robert Frost. “Birches” is an excellent poem where the speaker sees himself in one of the characters being talked about. Metaphorically the boy that is being talked about could be the earlier life of the elder speaker. Nature, the boy, and the life cycle are all three different themes that helped complete this poem by Frost.
Nature is beautiful and can stand for many things. Birches are beautiful, tall, thin trees that can not hold that much stress and weight. “But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay. Ice-storms do that.”, Robert Frost explains how the weather takes part, comparing the the ice-storms to stress. Robert Frost also explains the life cycle through nature when he says “As the breeze rises, and turn many-coloured as the stir cracks and crazes their enamel” and also when he says “And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more.
Ice-storms are something many people don’t go through, depending on where the person lives. In the south, snowstorms are not common but in the north, they are. Robert Frost grew up in the north. He saw many different things that people in the south would never be used to. Birch trees are not the strongest in the tree family. The trees are tall and skinny, yet very beautiful. Snow is a heavy substance that usually weighs something down every chance it gets, including the Birch tree.
Birch trees have a white coating over them that peels off a certain part of the year. Comparing the birch tree to the human life, the enamel that peels off could be the stress that weighs a human down. Robert Frost uses descriptive words to depict a very distinct picture for each reader.
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...is weeping from the twig’s having lashed across it open”. Someone may look at that quotation from this spectacular poem, and may never see the deeper meaning. The speaker has been climbing the trees for many years but something tragic has happened, causing him to give up his journey and relax.
The life cycle of a person is long and withholds many experiences as it goes by. The speaker has hit the end of the road which is the end of his life. He keeps comparing himself to the small child because that small child just began his journey and has his entire life ahead of him.
“Birches” by Robert Frost is a poem based on the life cycle of any human. The poem is broken down into three different sections: trees, the boy, and eyes. Robert Frost speaks about nature, the boy, and the life cycle throughout the poem. The poem is completed to depict a visual for all the readers.

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