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Birches

The document provides biographical information about American poet Robert Frost and analyzes his poem "Birches". It notes that while Frost was professionally successful as a poet, winning several awards, his personal life was plagued by tragedy and loss, including the early deaths of his father, mother, sister, and four of his six children. The poem "Birches" reflects on this, with the bending birch trees representing Frost's struggles and ability to withstand hardship like the flexible trees can withstand storms.

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Birches

The document provides biographical information about American poet Robert Frost and analyzes his poem "Birches". It notes that while Frost was professionally successful as a poet, winning several awards, his personal life was plagued by tragedy and loss, including the early deaths of his father, mother, sister, and four of his six children. The poem "Birches" reflects on this, with the bending birch trees representing Frost's struggles and ability to withstand hardship like the flexible trees can withstand storms.

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Birches

Robert Frost
● Born in New England
● 20th-century poet
● Uses the locale,the culture around him very well. Uses religion and home settings very
well
● Direct descents of early settlers
● Work life- great, was awarded many times
● Personal life- depressing, tragic, overall not very well. His family had a history with
mental illness: his mother, wife, he himself suffered from depression. Robert Frost's
personal life was plagued by grief and loss. (In 1885 when he was 11, his father died of
tuberculosis, leaving the family with just eight dollars. Frost's mother died of cancer in
1900. In 1920, he had to commit his younger sister Jeanie to a mental hospital, where
she died nine years later. Mental illness apparently ran in Frost's family, as both he and
his mother suffered from depression, and his daughter Irma was committed to a mental
hospital in 1947. Frost's wife, Elinor, also experienced bouts of depression.) Also his 4
kids died at a young age. He had 6 kids in total.

Poem
● Lamenting tone
● Taming the life- taming the tree,,looks like a child has been swinging on them
● Breeze rise- temperature rises,, ice melts slowly and slowly tree comes back to its
original position
● Enamel- outer skin of the tree
● Robert Frost= Birch tree while strom symbolizes his personal struggles
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