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Comment 53 of 93, added on December 1st, 2009 at 4:15 PM.
I dont belive that in 1916 someone would ateempt to write a poem about
"riding birches" as something sexual and don't think about replacing the r
with a t because that term wasn't loosely used in that time. Also, the last
line is not about him saying that there are worse things than sex or
thinking about sex, just clearing that up.
Roxy from United States
Comment 52 of 93, added on September 22nd, 2009 at 6:46 AM.
For those who don't see the sexual references in this poem, I believe you
are missing part of it's beauty. Yet, there is much more to this poem.
For me it's about life, death, happiness, misery, play, work, reality,
fantasy, heaven, reincarnation, sexual discovery, youth, aging, sexual
frustration, uncertainty of death, wanting to go back to youth and
innocence, struggles of life, beauty and love of life, hoping for
reincarnation, flirting with suicide, but not wanting to die and risk not
coming back. What makes this poem great is that you can read it through
your own life and reach deeper levels of understanding as you mature. This
is a very masculine poem and I can see why some of the younger male readers
fantasize about replacing the "R" in birches with a "T".
D from United States
Comment 51 of 93, added on May 9th, 2009 at 6:10 PM.
im doing this poem for my iop and i fell in love with it as soon as i read
it. i have to talk about it for atleast ten minutes. i wish i ahd a whole
period. theres so much about this poem that speaks to me, and that i would
love to share with my class. mr. frost is a genius for a second i thought
he was actuallt talking about a boy which makes it seem at first sexual.
reading it again i see he talks about innocence, and aging. the way he uses
first second and third person makes it even more intreguing because he
doesnt lose the reader on who or what he is refering to. appearence us.
reality plays a big part in this poem as well. dreaming that he could go
back and come back. its truly remarkable how frost wrote this poem
yavi from United States
Comment 50 of 93, added on March 24th, 2009 at 7:32 AM.
not only does robert frost concure the dificulties of nature but he also
developed on a more physimetical world. one thing that needs to be
established before reading frosts poetry is the complications concerning
frosts own mental health he was experiencing a crisis out side of the war
crises, somewhere more personal ..frosts own home. its difficult to assume
the measure to which frosts depression allowed him to write many say that
its the key hole to reality. this is certainly apart in birches. however in
a letter to frank grey ( an old friend of frosts) he wrote about his sexual
frustration and his inability to conect sexualy to his wife. this sexual
frustration does radiate with in frosts peotry and its only fair to assume
that birches is a direct analogy of erectile disfuction with refrence to
the 'birches drooping' . with not one to talk to directly about frosts own
problems ho chooses to funnel his frustration through his poetry and if one
looks closly at what is being said it is increasinlgly clear.
bonjohn from Canada
Comment 49 of 93, added on March 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 PM.
For some reason, half the people on this appreciation site misuse it (I
guess they can't comprehend anything but sex, or any literature above The
Cat in the Hat). If you're not going to say something that's going to
contribute, why say anything?
Now to my thoughts on the poem. I recently had to read this for a class and
had a little trouble understanding it at first. After rereading it, though,
symbols and meaning become a little more apparent. Along with what someone
else said (a yearning to past innocence) I feel as though another theme is
a reflecting on the death of innocence. He is, after all, looking back at
these young, care-free times in admiration.
Numerous symbols exist in this poem as well. When Frost describes the trees
as young and old in the first few lines, he is perhaps referencing people,
or even himself. Ice storms are symbolizing obstacles that bend trees [test
people] over time. Perhaps, this heaven could, in a less complex way, be
symbolizing the times as a child spent innocent and idly.
Amazing poem
Ian from United States
Comment 48 of 93, added on February 18th, 2009 at 11:05 AM.
Seems to me to be about the idea of death and passing from Earth to another
place. I say "another" because I feel the theme is about dreaming of heaven
but being content on Earth, "the right place for love." It is beautiful to
dream of heaven but it is also beautiful to be reminded of the place you
are. I take it as a flirt with suicide and a realization of how life on
Earth is too good to leave behind for now.
Daniel from United States
Comment 47 of 93, added on November 7th, 2008 at 5:14 AM.
This poem could easily be about a young boy's loneliness and wanting top
grow up and experience sex. The riding of the trees could easily be a
symbol of sex. Read lines 28-32 of the poem and try to say that is not an
aspect of the poem if not the main point.
Theo from United Kingdom
Comment 46 of 93, added on March 20th, 2008 at 9:36 AM.
This Poem Is based on the natuaralities of facing life and death and
confronting these two challenges in such a confusing, elloquent,
iirationalized, unethical, contrivance but I do believe that in the end
Robert Frost is a very excellent writer and contains alot of good morals
and values especially when he proved that in his writings =]]
JULZ from Bangladesh
Comment 45 of 93, added on January 17th, 2008 at 7:53 PM.
What does the last line of the poem mean? I don't understand it.
Petuna from United States
Comment 44 of 93, added on January 6th, 2008 at 3:21 PM.
Life is something we can discuss after passing through it.It's immposible
before death.Why not talking about trees then.They can't walk and can bear
everything silently and with indignity.This noblety of trees,even the
tender ones,irritates us.It's poem of fighting,I think.
Temenuga from Bulgaria
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I dont belive that in 1916 someone would ateempt to write a poem about
"riding birches" as something sexual and don't think about replacing the r
with a t because that term wasn't loosely used in that time. Also, the last
line is not about him saying that there are worse things than sex or
thinking about sex, just clearing that up.
Roxy from United States