Birches || Robert Frost || ISC Poem || ISC Reverie || ICSE Learning || English Poem ||

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When the speaker sees bent birch trees, he likes to think that they are bent because boys have been “swinging” them. He knows that they are, in fact, bent by ice storms. Yet he prefers his vision of a boy climbing a tree carefully and then swinging at the tree’s crest to the ground. He used to do this himself and dreams of going back to those days. He likens birch swinging to getting “away from the earth awhile” and then coming back.
This is blank verse, with numerous variations on the prevailing iambic foot.
The title is “Birches,” but the subject is birch “swinging.” And the theme of poem seems to be, more generally and more deeply, this motion of swinging. The force behind it comes from contrary pulls-truth and imagination, earth and heaven, concrete and spirit, control and abandon, flight and return. We have the earth below, we have the world of the treetops and above, and we have the motion between these two poles.
The whole upward thrust of the poem is toward imagination, escape, and transcendence-and away from heavy Truth with a capital T. The downward pull is back to earth. Likely everyone understands the desire “to get away from the earth awhile.” The attraction of climbing trees is likewise universal. Who would not like to climb above the fray, to leave below the difficulties or drudgery of the everyday, particularly when one is “weary of considerations, / And life is too much like a pathless wood.” One way to navigate a pathless wood is to climb a tree. But this act of climbing is not necessarily so pragmatically motivated: For the boy, it is a form of play; for the man, it is a transcendent escape. In either case, climbing birches seems synonymous with imagination and the imaginative act, a push toward the ethereal, and even the contemplation of death.
ut the speaker does not leave it at that. He does not want his wish half- fulfilled-does not want to be left, so to speak, out on a limb. If climbing trees is a sort of push toward transcendence, then complete transcendence means never to come back down. But this speaker is not someone who puts much stock in the promise of an afterlife. He rejects the self-delusional extreme of imagination, and he reinforces his ties to the earth. He says, “Earth’s the right place for love,” however imperfect, though his “face burns” and “one eye is weeping.” He must escape to keep his sanity; yet he must return to keep going. He wants to push “[t]oward heaven” to the limits of earthly possibility, but to go too far is to be lost. The upward motion requires a complement, a swing in the other direction to maintain a livable balance.
And that is why the birch tree is the perfect vehicle. As a tree, it is rooted in the ground; in climbing it, one has not completely severed ties to the earth. Moreover, as the final leap back down takes skill, experience, and courage, it is not a mere retreat but a new trajectory. Thus, one’s path up and down the birch is one that is “good both going and coming back.” The “Truth” of the ice storm does not interfere for long; for the poet looks at bent trees and imagines another truth: nothing less than a recipe for how to live well.
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Robert Frost was a westerner, but he had an innate tendency to look within, like most intellectuals in the East do. As he sauntered through the countryside in winter, he feasted his eyes in the birch trees virtually cowered down by the load of snow sitting on their branches and leaves. Robert Frost being a sensitive soul discovered new wisdom from this. He was at odds with the daily humdrum life that made people greedy, and selfish. He loathed such a dreary existence, but he refused to be a pessimist. The birches did crouch under snow, but the Sunlight dislodged the snow off the leaves. The birch tree stood up again, to its full height jubilantly. It defied the woes of the winter, and declared its triumph over the curse of the cold. Warmth returned to its life. This makes Frost optimistic, and cheerful. He feels, he can wait out the hard days of life. However, deep in his heart, Robert Frost loved the innocence and simplicity of childhood, but he couldn’t. The poem shows the rare spiritual and philosophical streak in Frost’s mind. Few humans are capable of such contemplation.

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