Birches

Birches Birches Through symbolism and artistic design Robert Frost illustrates the circle of life, death and life again, a kind of reincarnation of the soul in his poem “Birches.” The poem begins with a description of a birch tree under various conditions, symbolic of the numerous hardships experienced by the members of our pretentious society. It then dives into the childhood imagination that we all have and use, to forget about the struggles in life. This poem brilliantly describes how we all suffer from hardships, which cause us to lose faith in our lives and how our innocent imagination can bring us back to show us the love found on earth. The first image that Frost describes to his readers is a realistic picture of birch trees being bent from an ice storm. He makes the connection that our lives become weighted with stresses of various kinds, which is symbolic of the ice weighing down the heavy branches of the birch tree. The sun that Frost refers to symbolizes warmth and life and provides the birch tree with relief in the same way that warmth and life aides us to our salvation from stress. birches, frost, poem, life, back, birch, young, simplicity, poem, boy, tree, society, earth, truth, stress, readers, love, lives, innocence, hardships, found, find, experienced, describes, death, childhood, bent, yet, warmth, various, trees, through, symbolism, symbolic, soul, same, sacrifices, rural, robert, right, return, reincarnation, rebirth, realistic, pleasure, order, one, once, never, naiveté, must