![]() ![]() It suggests us a way to deal when our life becomes a pathless wood. Reading the poem gives us “ the pleasure of ulteriority.” This poem may deal with the description of birches in winter and the playfulness of young boys but the irony comes out of the fact that the whole description, in the end, looks like a metaphor. It looks like the whole poem which looks so simple is actually carved around the nature of ideas and sounds which are there.įrost said poetry is simply made of metaphor. The poet enjambs single sentences over many lines which gives a dramatic power to the poem. The poem employs everyday speech like a person in his thoughts and reflections is gossiping about his past and the hardships of life in a very intimate way. ![]() This poem discusses a simple thought of birches bent under the snowfall and boys swinging in their branches but the immaculate way of composition allows us to experience the abstract vitality of our speech which is “ pure sound-pure form.” Frost himself said that “ I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.” This poem defamiliarizes words to surprise us with their sounds as if we are hearing them for the first time. He was fully occupied with how everything sounds as. In one of his Preface, Frost wrote that “ Abstraction is an old story with the philosophers, but it has been like a new toy in the hands of the artists of our day.” The realistic portrayal of Nature such as the birches here is injected with symbolic meanings. ![]() The poem is set in a rural world of contemplation. The 59 lines of this poem exemplify poetic concepts of Robert Frost such as “education by metaphor” “ a momentary stay against confusion” and “ sound of sense.” It is written in Blank Verse which means sentences are metrical but without any rhyme. ![]()
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