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"Birches" by Robert Frost Period 5
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BY ROBERT FROST
When I see birches bend to left and right
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alliterations help a poem to sound more fluid and flow easily.
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Marie Grassi
Marie Grassi
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alliteration adds to the poem by adding a sound effect giving it a happy ear sound -- samantha wherle
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Thomas Marino
Thomas Marino
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Tommy and Evie- the alliteration of birches and bend adds rhythm to the poem
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Grant Gilsenan
Grant Gilsenan
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Stresses the words birches and bend making it sound better through the stress of constants
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.
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Layla Bergman
Layla Bergman
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Lily and Layla: alliteration in this poem creates rhythm
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Mary Heink
Mary Heink
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the alliteration makes the poem flow and it makes the poem more interesting to read
more
aj and olivia
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Alliteration adds to the poem by giving it a more rhythmic flow
Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells
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This adds detail and helps to give a visual image
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Chloe Demboski
Chloe Demboski
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soon the sun's-alliteration shed crystal shells- alliteration
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
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olivia, aj and mary
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similes help relate 2 unlike things and make a poem more interesting to read
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Caroline Elliott
Caroline Elliott
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Simile: comparing girls on hands and knees with their hair in the sun to leaves
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Cris Kubatko
Cris Kubatko
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This helps to put an image in your mind by comparison. -Grace and Cris
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claire sugar
claire sugar
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simile- uses "like" when comparing girls on their hands and knees to the leaves on a tree
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Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.
But I was going to say when Truth broke in
With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm
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Matthew Heidenreich
Matthew Heidenreich
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Personification- truth is given human qualities
I should prefer to have some boy bend them
As he went out and in to fetch the cows—
Some boy too far from town to learn baseball,
Whose only play was what he found himself,
Summer or winter, and could play alone.
One by one he subdued his father's trees
By riding them down over and over again
Until he took the stiffness out of them,
And not one but hung limp, not one was left
For him to conquer.
He learned all there was
To learn about not launching out too soon
And so not carrying the tree away
Clear to the ground.
He always kept his poise
To the top branches, climbing carefully
With the same pains you use to fill a cup
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Caroline Elliott
Caroline Elliott
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creates rhythm for the poem -bella G and caroline
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Caroline Elliott
Caroline Elliott
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metaphor: comparing poise to water fill up situation
Up to the brim, and even above the brim.
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,
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flung, feet,first
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Grant Gilsenan
Grant Gilsenan
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It adds meter and interest to the line and stresses the h making it easier to read
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flung, feet, first
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Anthony DeFilippo
Anthony DeFilippo
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This helps the words flow better and gives us a visual image to help us imagine what the boy is doing.
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.
So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
It's when I'm weary of considerations,
And life is too much like a pathless wood
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Anthony DeFilippo
Anthony DeFilippo
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compares life to pathless wood using "like" - simile
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Lucy Loudon
Lucy Loudon
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Allows reader to understand Frost's view about life, how it is interchanging, unpredictable, and confusing. Kate and Lucy
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Matthew Heidenreich
Matthew Heidenreich
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Simile- compares life to a pathless wood
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Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
Broken across it, and one eye is weeping
From a twig's having lashed across it open.
I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return.
Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
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Norah Dorley
Norah Dorley
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The author used personification to add greater symbolism to its actions and to help the reader visualize and better understand the emotion. -Norah, Bella, and Julia
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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