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Birches Robert Frost In "Birches" by Robert Frost, he speaks of how he wishes that he could swing around from the birch trees like he used to as a kid. It seems as though his identity has changed since he became a child because for some reason now he doesn't go and swing from the birches. Frost says that when he sees the birch trees bent, he wished that it was the work of a …

…and be a kid again. At a young age is where most people's identities are formed. <Tab/>Frost knows that it easily could have been ice or snow that bent the birches down. He wants to feel in himself that it was a boy swinging on his dad's trees. Robert Frost just needs to go play on a playground or swing from a birch and then he wont sound so sad.