![]() Without direct indication from Frost, the reader is able to figure out that the speaker in this poem is an older man. This is the first thing we learn about the speaker through poetic devices, but it is just the beginning of them in the poem. Frost presents the speakers conflict with the title, because the speaker wants to use the birches to go back to his childhood, due to fact that his life right up to this point has been very lonely and awful. He using literally devices to unfold the controlling metaphor throughout the poem. The birches have a symbolic representation to the speaker as his childhood and are known to him as a way to go back to being a “swinger of the birches” (Frost, 42). The title “Birches”, introduces the reader to the controlling metaphor. Frost uses extreme use of contrast because the speaker whom Frost describes in his poetry are forced to choose between rationality and imagination, and the two cannot exist at the same time. ![]() Next, Frost delivers the reader with the reality and connects the speaker to the previous lines, followed by a resolution in the way the speaker feels. It is then followed by what (at first) is fiction. This truth later changes to fiction due to paradox. The poem begins by giving the reader background information until line five, when it precedes on to the truth. ![]() Instead, along with the speaker’s beliefs, they depend on the reader developing a strong understanding of the poem. These breaks do not jump out to the reader right away. Although visually, the poem doesn’t have any more than one selection, it is broken down into five different sections based on changes in the topic as well as the speaker’s ideas. The style of “Birches” is a free verse of numerous variations on the prevailing iambic foot. Frost begins by giving the central image of the poem by letting the reader know exactly what is about to happen. ![]()
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