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Birches” moves the reader to interpret the deeper meaning within the poem. Frost uses the metaphor of the ice storm to illustrate its connection with life. T
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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...
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