In Robert Frost's "Birches," the reader once again is exposed to this idea as Frost daydreams about climbing the branches of a tree "toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, but dipped its top and set me down again. ... In this instant when the young boy is being propelled upward by the swinging birches, he is given the "half grant" of his wish to be swept away in his dreams. ...

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