![]() Like most of Frost’s poems, “Birches” used one type of figurative device, metaphor, in the poem to evoke mental images. This poem could reflect on World War I that robs and destroys children’s lives since Frost lived in the era of that war. And they, since they / Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs” to emphasize the reality that the ones not dead should continue to live. This speaker ends the poem with, “No more to build on there. The boy’s family needs to accept the reality that bad things happen randomly regardless of gender and age no one is to blame for the boy’s death. ![]() The young boy works as his responsibility to continue living in this world but ends up dying. With the same theme about reality and responsibility, “Out, Out”, is about a young boy who is forced to work at yard and eventually dies during his work. The speaker is forced to accept that reality, “But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay / As ice storms do” (Lines 4-5). However, he needs to accept the reality that he is an adult and cannot leave his responsibility on earth. He wishes that he could swing on the birches as he did in his childhood and escape to heaven. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reality and responsibility themes appear in the poem “Birches.” Every time, the speaker sees the birches bend, he tends to think of a boy’s swinging on them. “The Themes of Reality and Responsibility in Birches by Robert Frost” ![]()
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