Robert Frost is a modern poet whose poetry is written to be easily understood and read as though it were everyday speech. He uses free verse to tell of his love and respect for nature. He also utilizes natural symbolism in a lot of his writings. He has written about rural landscape and wildlife so much that people often refer to his as a nature poet. In the poem Birches, Frost utilizes natural symbolism to explain how heaven is the ideal realm of purity and light, a place in which we can aspire to. He also explains how the tension between earthly satisfactions and higher aspirations emerges from the recollection of a childhood game. In the first section (Lines 1-20), Frost explains the birches appearances scientifically. He implies that natural phenomenons make the branches of the birch trees sway. He explains that ice storms, which are a characteristic of New England weather, can cause the branches to become heavy and bend. Birches have a black background with crackled snow......

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Title: Birches
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Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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