I believe that Frost's poem Birches is a little lengthy but, stives to make the reader understand why he is writing about Birch trees. I think it's a bit of nostalgia and the want and/or need to escape.
"I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return." (lines 48-52)
He blatantly states he wishes to escape and intimated that as a child when he used to swing from the Birch trees, he used it as an escape. I believe Frost tells the reader that everyone needs an escape and that everyone should find something that can help them escape from reality.
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I agree with you but dont you think that he was trying to shape his reality by the analogy of the boy bending the branches or in other words bending the rigidness of life??
ReplyDeleteI think that's a valid point. I think he meant the rigidness of everyone's life. Since he says WE could do worse that being branch swingers. I think that "we" was generalized towards everyone.
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