What is nature?

R A P P O RT Q U E S T I O N S

Your concept about nature?

Give me some words about your vacation period ? Explain your

experiences in your life?

Have you heard about the word birches?

Can you explain the background of the
picture ?
 Introduction
This poem related to nature. Poets attitude
about nature.
The poet explain his memorable childhood
experiences.
The major themes of the poem is ....
the relationship between nature and poet ,
reality v/s imaginary,
youth and loss of innocence.
 ROBERT FROST

He was born on march 26,1874.

He was born in San Francisco, california .

He was the most famous poet of the 20th century in America.

He received many prizes like pulitzer prizes, the Mark Twain

medal etc.

His poems that deal with rural landscape and wildlife, shows
Frost as a nature poet.
 FROSTS WORKS

His major works include.

A Boys Will (1913)
Home Burial(1914)
The Sound of the Trees(1916)
The Road Not Taken (1916)
Fire and Ice (1923)
Once by the Pacific(1928)
ROBERT FORST
 Birches
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay
As ice-storms do. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. They click upon themselves
As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.
Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells
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.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves:
You may see their trunks arching in the woods
Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground
Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.
 GLOSSARY
Birch - tree with smooth
bark and thin flexible branches
Bend - to curve downwards
Breeze - light wind
drag - pulled down to the
ground
Craze - produce minute
cracks
Enamel - outer covering
Stay - remain
Swinging - move to and fro
Sunny - bright with sunlight
Trailing - dragging on the
ground
Warmth - temperature
between cool and hot
 SUMMARY

The poet sees the birches being bent to left and right sides ,he
likes to think that some boys have been swinging them.

He then realizes that it is not the boys, rather the ice storms that
bend the birches.

On a winter morning, freezing rain covers the branches with ice,

which then cracks and falls to the snow covered ground. The
sunlight refracts on the ice crystals, making a brilliant display.
 When the Truth again strikes the speaker, he still prefers his
imagination of the boys swinging and bending the birches. In his
imagination, the boy plays with the birches. The speaker says he
also was a swinger of birches when he was a boy, and wishes to be
so now.
When he becomes weary of this world, and life becomes
confused, he likes to go toward heaven by climbing a birch tree and
then come back again because earth is the right place for love.
 BIRCHES
THEME SYMBOLS

Youth and the Loss of Trees

Innocence Birds and Birdsong
Self-Knowledge Through Solitary Travelers
Nature

Community vs. Isolation

 QUESTIONS

Do you like this poem ?

Birches is a beautiful poetic piece full of nature images and

descriptions , Do you agree ?

Do you identified the figures of speech about the poetry ?

 Alliteration
is a
repetition
of
consonant
sounds

Metaphor Onomatopoeia
is a is a
Comparison Imitation of
between two the sounds
things
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.
Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed
crystal shells
Shattering and avalanching on the snow-
crust
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
 One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
-Birches

1. This selection appears in the final line of the poem and serves as
a thoughtful reiteration of the narrator's ideas about swinging on
birches.
2. The act of swinging on a birch conveys a certain childlike
innocence, but also allows the swinger to escape the cold
rationality of the earth for a short time and reach into the
heavens.
3. Although the swinger is still grounded (through the roots of the
birch tree), he is able to find freedom of imagination and also
keep his life from becoming static.
 ACTIVITIES
What is blank verse ?

Write down a short poem about nature ?

Write down a paragraph about your experiences in your

vacation time ?
THANKS