Part one of term paper
Birches is a nostalgic poem filled with fond memories and fantasies, yet there is a longing for escape underwritten in the clever choice of words. Robert Frost sets up a conversation with someone’s present self and this person’s self as a young boy. There is a man narrating this poem. The old man is looking at his present life full of ...

Part two of term paper
... “I like to think some boy’s been swinging them” (03). The narrator is having a childhood fantasy. Soon the man’s inner dialogue snaps him back to reality, “But I was going to say when truth broke in” (21). The response “I should prefer to have some boy bend them” (23) tells the reader he is fantasizing again. The man begins to remember “some boy too far from town to play baseball, /Whose only play was what he found himself” (25-26). The man is thinking about his own childh ...