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Title: Birches by Robert Frost


1
Birches by Robert Frost
  • American Literature II
  • Instructor Prof. Cecilia Liu
  • Group Members Tom, Christina

2
Outline
  • The Pictures of Birches
  • Summary
  • Rhymes
  • Structure
  • Setting
  • Themes
  • References

3
The Pictures of Birches
4
  • The silver birch with its characteristic white
    bark
  • http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a
    /Betula_pendula_winter.jpg

5
Summary
  • The birches are bent by the boys swinging or by
    the storm
  • The boy is swing the birches
  • Climbing a tree becomes a retreat for the adult
    speaker

6
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

7
Structure
  • 15 The speaker is guessing which factor causes
    the bending of the birches.
  • 613 The scenery of snow falling from the
    birches.
  • 1420 The dragging birches are like girls
    throwing their hair to dry.
  • 2140 A boy swinger is swinging the birches
  • 4159 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.

8
Setting
  • An outside scenery with birch tree
  • Or in his imagery recall in his mind?
  • (Dramatic Monologue)

9
Themes
  • Swinging birch tree as a transcendent escape
  • Binary opposites
  • Earth V.S. Heaven
  • Boy V.S. Man
  • Reality V.S. Transcendence

10
References
  • Sparknote
  • http//cgi.sparknotes.com/hlite.rmpl?wordsbirches
    pd0pagesection8.rhtmlnfs0guide2fpoetry2f
    frost
  • Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia
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