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Poet: Robert Frost (Robert Frost Art)
Poem: 12.
Birches
Volume: Mountain Interval
Year: Published/Written in 1916
Poem of the Day:
Aug 22 2004
Comment 52 of 52, 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 52, 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 52, 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
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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