Essay on Memories, Nature, Hardship in Robert Frosts...

The poem â€Å"Birches† is another one of Robert Frost great poem of using nature to get his point of view of life into the readers mind. Throughout the poem it seems as if Frost is trying to show things of life that could be hardships, friendships, sadness, memories, or etc. Frost uses memories, nature and hardships to describe different times of life in this poem. In this poem of birches the speaker seems to reminisce a lot on his youth days. He wants to go back to the days of swinging on tree limbs. The times of not stressing but going out and having fun. Climbing the birches is almost like trying to escape life problems and hardships. Lines 54-57 shows the speakers imagination of climbing the birches and escaping the hardness of adult life.†¦show more content†¦That can be compared to life by saying, Another person can not bring you down, only the hardships that you go through if you are not strong enough will consume a you. Ice storms are not storms everybody in the world go through. Ice storms are for places that receive a lot more snow. Ice storms are very powerful and could cause plenty of damage. Trees are not that strong when a real tough storm comes and hit. The nature of ice storms could also have a different meaning coming from Frost. An ice storm brings destruction to everythings in its path, causes pain to people, and sadness. Thinking of an ice storm somebody have in life could be the troubles that they have. The Ice storms trouble that the author may have could come from the hardships of being an adult. When you become an adult and doing things on your own with no help, sometimes it can drop a person down. Leaving childhood and becoming an adult brings new responsibilities and duties to a persons lifestyle. Once you hit adulthood there is no way of returning to a child. In the poem the speaker can not handle the responsibilities of being an adult. The climbing of birches is not a permanent escape but only temporary. Almost like a vacation that humans take to relax their mind. The relaxing enjoyment does not last forever though. After the vacation, you go right back to the duties of being an adult. The paying bills, working to have clothes, food, and shelter,Show MoreRelatedRobert Frost : A New England Poet3698 Words   |  15 PagesRobert Lee Frost Known for being a New England poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California on March 26th, 1874. Born to a New England father William Prescott Frost Jr. and a Scottish mother Isabelle Moodie who moved to the west coast from Pennsylvania after marriage (Bailey). Both his parents were teachers and poets themselves, but his father later became a journalist with the San Francisco Evening Bulletin (Bailey). Frost spent 12 years of his life growing up in San Francisco, until