fic event. It is an era surrounding the specific events in which we are tested/pushed to the breaking point, then we must choose to break or simply bend.In the final portion of the poem, Frost deals with an adults perspective of the birch trees and how it relates to adult life. Frost is reflecting back to a boys innocent childhood experience. The adult yearns to return back in time to a carefree life. He says its when Im weary and he seems to have lost his way, that he would like to get away from earth awhile and then come back to relive this joyous, carefree period in his life. He goes on to say dont get me wrong, I dont want to leave earth not to return for the things he loves best the birches are part of the earth. I am moved by the line Earths the right place for love. This line to me is HOPE. I think Frost is saying that as bad as things can get on earth, beauty and happiness and love still exist. I see the bending of the birches without breaking, as a symbol of our lives. So many people are pushed to a breaking point in life with stress, heavy burdens to bear and yet we survive and dont break. However, as we mature, we are changed or forever bent by these events that never allow us to return completely to our former selves. We can choose to let these events break us or we can let the icy/hard shell break free from us and find what lies beneath has grown with character and wisdom. We all have things that remind us from time to time of a more carefree, happy period in our lives. When we remember, we cross the thresholds of time and distance. We like the Swinger of Birches wish if only I could go back and relive that special time. For Frost, the character in this poem is taken back to his carefree past by the birch trees.Poetry helps us to cross these thresholds of time also. Poetry allows us to experience beauty and find a path to a long ago buried feeling or desire. Birches by Robert Frost is an example of such poe...
