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There is that of childhood and manhood, black and white colors of the
branches, and maturity and early experience. Discovering Authors Modules wasn't
quite as direct as other sources, but they have the same idea. The speaker in
'Birches' wonders whether a bent birch branch was cause by a child at play or by
natural elements and metaphorically links tree-climbing with aspirations or
heaven (Magill 72). This poem is broken down easily into the three sections and
Frost uses a creative approach to compare the branches on a birch tree to a man
remembering his boyhood experiences (Magill 74). Frost's poems have been
criticized as a whole because they are all so similar in his style of writing.
His use of imagery and metaphors along with stanza and meters is what makes his
writing so unique and remarkable. His writing is able to represent things so
much larger that the actual words can represent that sometimes critics don’t
even see the purpose. His poem The Road Not Taken isn't but just four stanzas
long, but what it represents is enough to make someone rethink the kind of
lifestyle they are leading and to take the road less traveled by. Lawrence
Thompson, Frost's biographer, states …No themes are more universal and
attractive than those which try to offer affirmative resolutions for the
conflicts dramatized in his life and his poetry. In Frost's poem Departmental he
writes of how people treat death and the dead by comparing us to something so
small as ants carrying off one of their dead. This comparison shows the reader
how that even if death is so common, it should still be treated with respect and
dignity (Turpin and McCann 317). Frost's poetic technique derives from the most
basic factors in literature, the factors that characterize the first great
literary age of European culture, drama, and metaphor, and beyond that, it has
shown remarkable results in practice (APMRF 2). One poem by Robert Frost, Fire
and Ice, compares how fire and ice both have the ability to destroy the world
and should therefore be treated as equals. This comparison can relate to so many
everyday events it is unimaginable. Discovering Authors Modules noticed Frost's
use of metaphor in Birches. The speaker metaphorically links tree-climbing with
aspirations for heaven (DAM 2).
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven. Frost is without a doubt one of the greatest poets of the
twentieth century. His goal in life he once said was to write a few poems it
will be hard to get rid of (Winnick 1). It can be said that he probably
surpassed his goal. Robert Frost's life has affected his poetry and his poetry
has also affected his life and the lives of many others who have come to enjoy
his fine writing.
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