Birches
by Robert Frost
1. What is a Birch?
Ans: Birch is a tree with smooth, often white bark and thin branches.
2. What do the birches symbolize?
Ans: The birches symbolize life and serves as the speaker's temporary channel of escape from the world and its harsh realities.
3. What do the ice- storms do to the birches?
Ans: The ice-storms make the birches bend for a long time and to such an extent that they fail to erect themselves.
4. When do the birches look like girls on hands and knees?
Ans: The birches look like girls on hands and knees after being permanently bent by the heavy load of ice.
5. What does the poet dream of in "Birches"?
Ans: In ‘Birches’ the poet dreams of going back to his childhood and be a swinger of birches once again.
6. What forced the branches of Birches bend? [NU 2015]
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7. What effect does the warmth of the sun have on the ice covered birch trees?
Ans: The warmth of the sun makes the ice covered birch trees shed crystal shells of ice on the snow-crust.
8. What does Robert Frost prefer, instead of the ice-storms?
Ans: Instead of the ice-storms Robert Frost prefers the birches to be bent and swung by some boys as a sport.
9. How does the poet like to go toward heaven?
Ans: The poet likes to go toward heaven climbing the black branches of a birch tree whose trunk is snow-white.
10. What does the poet dream of in “Birches”? [NU 2016]
Ans: In ‘Birches’ the poet dreams of going back to his childhood and be a swinger of birches once again.
11. How would the boy play with birches?
Ans: The boy would play with the birches by climbing up and up every tree individually until the tree fails to bear him any more and dips its top and sets him down again.
12. "And it is too much like a pathless wood"- Identify the figure of speec
Ans: The figure of speech found in "And it is too much like a pathless wood" is a Simile.
13. What kind of boy does the poet prefer for bending the birches?
Ans: For bending the birches, the poet prefers a shepherd boy who is too far from town to learn baseball.
14. What is the earth right place for? [NU 2015]
Ans: Earth is the right place for love.
15. Where does the "Earth’s right place for love" occur?
Ans: The expression "Earth’s right place for love" occurs in the poem ‘Birches’ by Robert Frost.
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