The reality versus imagination seems to be the most predominant issue in this poem. In the poem, by Frost, the speaker is literally describing the birches. ... The tone of the poem is light- hearted with a sense of peacefulness. The flow of the poem itself gives the reader a feeling of swinging on branches. ... It's when I"m weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open" ( 42- 47). ...

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• Grade Level: High School