Compare and Contrast

Compare and Contrast

The poem “Briches” literally revolves around a boy living on the New England countryside "whose only play was what he found himself," in this case, riding birch branches. Frost's poems are very literal in language but by analyzing each line, different themes and interpretations may be found. A more deeper and figurative meaning to "Birches" is its theme of life and death.

This poem was writing in the 1900s, along with the typical American values and different ways of life from everyone else. The symbolism in this poem relates to the main concept of "life and death" in ...