the birches by robert frost birches
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The Birches By Robert Frost
Birches
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Birches By Robert Frost
• Reveals a sense of maturity, and getting older.
• Mentions climbing to heaven. Which could mean getting closer to god.
• He speaks of returning. Wants to get as close to god as possible but doesn’t want to die.
Themes
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Structure and techniques
• Poem does not rhyme
• Introduction lasts 6 lines
• Poem creates images of the trees twisting
• Metaphor- “as the stir cracks and crazes their enamel”
• Metaphor- “Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away”
• Simile- “life is too much like a pathless wood”
• Simile- “Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.”
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Metaphors• Metaphor- “as the stir cracks and crazes their
enamel”
• Metaphor- “Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away”
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Similes• Simile- “life is too much like a pathless wood”
• Simile- “Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun.”
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More techniques • Personification- “But I was going to say when Truth broke in
With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm”• Alliteration- “Cracks and Crazes” • Repetition- “Over and over”
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Birches
By Robert Frost
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By Matt Young