Birches -Analysis

The Ice Storms of Life and the Birches that Survive them After reading “Birches” by Robert Frost through many times the main thing I see is the comparison between the consequences of growing out of childhood and whether birches will survive through the harshness of winter. I kept getting a feeling of the inevitable and the feeling of carefreeness of childhood. The first image is one of birches bending towards the ground and there are …

…have to live through. A boy can bend reality when he is imagining he is Tarzan, but the speaker knows that he cannot. There are many birches in the world and there are also going to be many more ice storms. Time will only tell if boys and ice storms will bend the birches. The speaker wants to believe that boys will bend a lot more birches than the ice storms and I do too.