Reality is depicted as birches bending and cracking after a freezing rain from the ice that was left behind. ... He tells the reader the real reason of what bent the birches in line 5 when he states "Ice-storms do that." In the next six lines, Erica Smith notes, "we are inclined to view the ice storm negatively because Frost has used it to refute his hoped-for explanation in line three" (Smith 20). ... His interpretation replaced the reality of the ice storm being the cause (Thomason 15,16). ... The speakers" imagination is soon disturbed by "Truth" in lines 21, 22: But I was going ...

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He compares the ice metaphorically to "heaps of broken glass." ... Yet, Frost points out that he wishes the "birch", which I've come to understand symbolizes the human capability of life and learning, could have such a different fate than one laden with ice and burdon bent branches. ... The boy's trees are used gently, avoiding the pain of being bent forever by callous ice storms. These ice storms that come quickly, and leave too quickly as to learn from what they've touched. ...

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He describes them as being laden down with the results of an ice storm, but that he would like to think of them as being bent over by this boy. His use of the ice storm and the boy seems to represent his wistfulness at growing old and his desire to be young again. ... He thoroughly describes the ice cracking from the wind tossed trees, the way the ice shatters and falls to the snow. ... The sun is glaring off of the snow, and I can hear the ice falling now and again, and the cracking of the birches as they blow one against another. ...

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However, Frost suggests that repeated ice storms are what bend the branches. Frost compares the breaking away of the ice from the trees to the "dome of heaven" shattering (Line 13). ... The ice can symbolize difficult times that come in life, while the ice breaking away may represent renewed hope for the future. ... Frost further explains the branches bend because of the ice, however, they do not break. ...

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However, Frost suggests that repeated ice storms are what bend the branches. Frost compares the breaking away of the ice from the trees to the "dome of heaven" shattering (Line 13). ... The ice can symbolize difficult times that come in life, while the ice breaking away may represent renewed hope for the future. ... Frost further explains the branches bend because of the ice, however, they do not break. ...

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However, Frost suggests that repeated ice storms are what bend the branches. Frost compares the breaking away of the ice from the trees to the "dome of heaven" shattering (Line 13). ... The ice can symbolize difficult times that come in life, while the ice breaking away may represent renewed hope for the future. ... Frost further explains the branches bend because of the ice, however, they do not break. ...

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The first image that Frost describes to his readers is a realistic picture of birch trees being bent from an ice storm. He makes the connection that our lives become weighted with stresses of various kinds, which is symbolic of the ice weighing down the heavy branches of the birch tree. ...

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The branches hanging low because of the ice storms, and not from children swinging on them, saddened him. He spoke of how beautiful the branches were with ice on them, and how beautiful the arching tree-trunks were. ...

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Robert Frost's theme in the poem "Birches", is one of Life (on Earth), representing that here and now is probably the best place to engage in sex and not waiting until you go to Heaven. Imagery, diction, and sound/musical are all essential elements in conveying the poem's meaning. Throughout the poe...

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One is by a young boy swinging on them and the other is by the ice storms and harsh weather that have worn them down. It is very easy to picture this scenario with the usage of language described in Roberts and Jacobs (1112): Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After rain. ...

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Obviously from experience the speaker concludes that the droopiness of the trees was caused by an ice storm, because the speaker confirms to the audience that a boy's swinging on the birches could not be the cause of the permanent damage to the trees. ...

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