Although Frost uses repetition multiple times, it is most evident when he continually reiterates the “birches bend”, “the boys swinging bends them, ” and “swingers of birches”. Lastly, Frost uses powerful sounds devices and sound elements such as repetition and onomatopoeia. With that being said, Frost even goes to say that he has mastered how to not launch or land too soon which allows him to preserve the branch height and allow multiple swings or escapes, although it is only temporary. Just as people use cars to get from one point to the next, the idea of swinging on the tree branches provides the narrator with a means to leave the earth, but only for the amount of time that he swings upwards, as it is clear that what goes up must come down. In addition, Frost uses the tree and its branches to relate it to a vehicle. Here, it is clear that the tree’s branches represent a way for him to depart from the fray of life and to ease his own thoughts and troubles because as a child this was the way to his own happiness. Frost first introduces this idea when he states “I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree, and climb black branches up a snow white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, but dipped its top and set me down again”. This, in turn, represents the comparison of reality and the escape of reality, and also shows that although he would like to relive what was once an easier time as a child, he fully understands that he must live in the present.Īnother important element that Frost subtly depicts is the use of figurative language to compare the physical tree to a ladder that leads to heaven and allows him to escape his own troublesome life on Earth. Here, Frost clearly displays that although he would like to believe that the branches are hanging low from boys swinging on them, just as he did as a child, he knows that the truth behind the low hanging braches is the intense weather that these trees encounter. Frost states, “Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells 10 shattering and avalanching on the snow crust - such heaps of broken glass to sweep away you’d think the inner dome of heaven had fallen”. Frost uses the vivid images of the dangling tree branches to contrast the reality or his adult life with his escape to his childhood.
One important element that Frost applies throughout the poem is imagery.
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