![]() ![]() ![]() The poem uses the natural world and seemingly every day events as a vehicle to explore the human experience. The poem is written in blank verse with a particular emphasis on “sound of sense”. The nature also plays a substantial role in the poem. The poem deals with the underlying themes of human escapism, fantasy & boyhood musings. The mood of the poem is an imaginative & a dreamy one. ![]() The narrator evokes a strong nostalgia of his childhood days in this poem. So, after an initial world-weariness, the poet narrator reconciles to the idea of reality. He wants to come back to this earth as he thinks earth to be the right place for love. But the speaker does not want to die by leaving earth forever. A strong sense of escapism is evident in both of these sections which becomes more evident in the later portions of the poem when he speaks of leaving this earth because of its confusion and make a heavenward journey. Then he goes on to describe the snows and their beauty. In the first section of the poem, he gives us the possible explanations for the bending of the birch trees. Written in conversational language, the poem constantly moves between reverie to reflection style=”font-weight: 400 ”>, truth and imagination, earth and heaven, concrete and spirit, control and abandon and flight and return. Birches Critical Analysis by Robert Frost ![]()
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