1. Birches
The Birches
By Robert Frost

12. Birches By Robert Frost
Themes
Reveals a sense of maturity, and getting older.
Mentions climbing to heaven. Which could mean getting closer to god.
He speaks of returning. Wants to get as close to god as possible but doesn’t want to die.

13. Structure and techniques
Poem does not rhyme
Introduction lasts 6 lines
Poem creates images of the trees twisting
Metaphor- “as the stir cracks and crazes their enamel”
Metaphor- “Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away”
Simile- “life is too much like a pathless wood”
Simile- “Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.”

14. Metaphors Metaphor- “as the stir cracks and crazes their enamel”
Metaphor- “Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away”

15. Similes Simile- “life is too much like a pathless wood”
Simile- “Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun.”

16. More techniques
Personification- “But I was going to say when Truth broke in With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm”
Alliteration- “Cracks and Crazes”
Repetition- “Over and over”

17. Birches
By Robert Frost

18. By Matt Young