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Birches by Robert Frost

Birches by Robert Frost. American Literature II Instructor: Prof. Cecilia Liu Group Members: Tom, Christina. Outline. The Pictures of Birches Summary Rhymes Structure Setting Themes References. The Pictures of Birches. The silver birch with its characteristic white bark

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Birches by Robert Frost

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  1. Birchesby Robert Frost • American Literature II • Instructor: Prof. Cecilia Liu • Group Members: Tom, Christina

  2. Outline • The Pictures of Birches • Summary • Rhymes • Structure • Setting • Themes • References

  3. The Pictures of Birches

  4. The silver birch with its characteristic white bark • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Betula_pendula_winter.jpg

  5. Summary • The birches are bent: by the boy’s swinging or by the storm • The boy is swing the birches • Climbing a tree becomes a retreat for the adult speaker

  6. Rhymes • Blank verse: a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter. Source: Wikipedia

  7. Structure • 1~5: The speaker is guessing which factor causes the bending of the birches. • 6~13: The scenery of snow falling from the birches. • 14~20: The dragging birches are like girls throwing their hair to dry. • 21~40: A boy swinger is swinging the birches • 41~59: The speaker sees climbing the birches as a retreat from the heavy-loaded pressure in life until the branches of the tree could not undertake and then send him back to earth.

  8. Setting • An outside scenery with birch tree • Or in his imagery recall in his mind? (Dramatic Monologue)

  9. Themes • Swinging birch tree as a transcendent escape Binary opposites: • Earth V.S. Heaven • Boy V.S. Man • Reality V.S. Transcendence

  10. References • Sparknote • http://cgi.sparknotes.com/hlite.rmpl?words=birches&pd=0&page=section8.rhtml&nfs=0&guide=%2fpoetry%2ffrost • Wikipedia • Wikipedia

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