There are very many instances in life where one feels that they need to escape from reality. In Robert Frost's poem, "Birches", he exemplifies the way he feels about the hardships in life and how an easy way to overcome them would be through imagination. Everybody wants to escape this hectic world sometimes, in order to relieve themselves of the various problems of our everyday lives. In the poem, The Pomegranate, by Eavan Boland, we get to see a struggling mother watch her young daughter as she is growing up right before her eyes. The speakers in both of these poems use many different literary techniques to express their deepest thoughts and ideas. I believe that both of these poems can be interpreted by looking at two different concepts, childhood versus adulthood and reality versus imagination.
In this poem, by Frost, the speaker is literally giving a description of the birches.
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Eavan Boland
Bolands MillThe speaker in the poem is presently looking at the trees while reminiscing on his childhood. Although not many details are given about the speaker and his past, the audience is informed that the speaker had once been a swinger of birches. Throughout the entirety of this poem, the speaker describes, in detail, the droopiness of the birches, the possible causes for their appearance, the true feelings that the speaker has for the birches, and the effects that the birches have had on the speaker's life. The tone of this poem is light-hearted with an evident sense of peacefulness. Even the flow of this poem gives the reader the carefree feeling of swinging on branches. Robert Frost uses a very creative and specific form of diction in the poem, which must be accomplished in order for the speaker to give the audience a understandable and vivid description of...