Birches by Robert Frost

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Birches by Robert Frost American Literature II Instructor: Prof. Cecilia Liu Group Members: Tom, Christina

Outline The Pictures of Birches Summary Rhymes Structure Setting Themes References

The Pictures of Birches

The silver birch with its characteristic white bark http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Betula_pendula_winter.jpg

Summary The birches are bent: by the boy’s swinging or by the storm The boy is swing the birches Climbing a tree becomes a retreat for the adult speaker

Rhymes Blank verse: a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter. Source: Wikipedia

Structure 1~5: The speaker is guessing which factor causes the bending of the birches. 6~13: The scenery of snow falling from the birches. 14~20: The dragging birches are like girls throwing their hair to dry. 21~40: A boy swinger is swinging the birches 41~59: The speaker sees climbing the birches as a retreat from the heavy-loaded pressure in life until the branches of the tree could not undertake and then send him back to earth.

Setting An outside scenery with birch tree Or in his imagery recall in his mind? (Dramatic Monologue)

Themes Swinging birch tree as a transcendent escape Binary opposites: Earth V.S. Heaven Boy V.S. Man Reality V.S. Transcendence

References Sparknote http://cgi.sparknotes.com/hlite.rmpl?words=birches&pd=0&page=section8.rhtml&nfs=0&guide=%2fpoetry%2ffrost Wikipedia