Poets use images to convey meaning, feelings, and emotions. The contemporary poet best known for his use of imagery is Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken opened the eyes of poetry readers and critics to Frost's artistic creations. It uses forms of language such as diction and syntax to capture and move the reader. When read literally, Robert Frost's Birches is the speaker's observation of birch trees in a quiet New England setting. The speaker sees the permanent bending of trees from frequent ice storms and the climbing of a playful boy. The speaker appreciates trees because they are part of his comforting environment. He would rather the branches be bent by a boy because the trees hold a place in his heart and he does not want their pain and destruction to be in vain. In line 41, the speaker's voice changes. It becomes reflective as he remembers his childhood swinging through those same birch trees. If the branches are to be bent and swung, his wish is that it be done by a boy so that pleasure can be obtained. From lines 41 to 59, the speaker is thinking. He wants to return to his childhood days, swinging through the same trees, bending the same branches, and listening after an ice storm as the branches "snap upon themselves / As the breeze picks up" (lines 7 -8). much more to a poem than its simple literal interpretation. Being a master of language and writing, Robert Frost camouflages his meanings behind descriptions of the nature around him. He expressed his need to use this method to reach the reader in his speech "Education through Poetry": Poetry provides the only authorized way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, “Why don’t you say what you think?” » We never do that, do we, being all too poetic. We like to speak in parables, allusions and indirectness, whether out of suspicion or some other instinct. He stays true to this in Birches, using the figure of a tree to symbolize life, an ice storm to represent the difficulties and obstacles the speaker has encountered throughout his life, and the word "paradise » (line 56) to mean happiness. Frost's word choices convey emotions and feelings to the reader. Birch trees awaken the senses of sight, hearing and touch. The first lines of the po...... middle of paper ...... get better. I would like to go there by climbing a birch, And climb the black branches on a snow-white trunk, Towards paradise, until the tree can take no more, This passage plays out once again like a movie. A man leaves all his troubles behind and climbs the same birch tree, but this time he climbs to paradise, love and happiness. There is no dark forest around him. The poem ends with a few simple lines saying that a journey back to an innocent childhood returning with happiness would be enriching. “You could do worse than being a birch swinger.” (Line 59) This last line is there to let the reader remember their innocence and hope that there is a possibility of carefree love in an adult world. Robert Frost used diction and syntax to transport the reader through the worlds of the present, the past, and this one. of a dream. Allow it to be part of every word and every sentence. His words are left to interpretation; one can read Birches purely at face value, taking the denotation of each word to explain the overall meaning of the poem or reading their connotation, allowing the poem to be read in terms of the life of the drive..