"Birches" by Robert Frost Period 2
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Birches
BY ROBERT FROST
When I see birches bend to left and right
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Colleen Altomari
Colleen Altomari
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Simile. It compares leaves on the ground to girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
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Catherine Lyons
Catherine Lyons
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adds a rhythm and connects the words to help create a flow in the sentence -catherine, maddy, and julia
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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Kaitlyn Kertz
Kaitlyn Kertz
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Gives a visual representation and gives a clear picture of the action in your mind Claire D
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Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells
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Kristina Kurtz
Kristina Kurtz
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Amelia Pepe & Kristina Kurtz: Soon, sun's, shed, shells; helps you form an image in your head that aids you in better understanding the poem.
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Michael Rabold
Michael Rabold
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It helps to create a more vivid image in the reader's head of the falling ice. Lance Hall
Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust—
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
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Catherine Lyons
Catherine Lyons
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helps to create a rhythm in the poem.
-catherine, maddy, and julia
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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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sarah cobb
sarah cobb
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it helps you visualize and understand what happening - gabriela, brooklyn, sarah
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Victoria Regan
Victoria Regan
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The simile helps to visualize what the poet is trying to say. -Victoria Regan and Isabella Read
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Sarah Festi
Sarah Festi
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Sarah and Izzy: this helps contribute to the meaning and helps the audience better visualize the bent over birches.
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Mia Hinze
Mia Hinze
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creates a better understanding by making a comparison and giving the reader a visual (mia hinze and leo pavell)
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Grace Cantwell
Grace Cantwell
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helps describe what the trees look like and what they are doing and what their motion looks like - Cantwell & Intihar
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Shannon O'Neil
Shannon O'Neil
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Simile because it compares 2 things using the word like
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Sofia Roncone
Sofia Roncone
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shannon and sofia- adds meaning to the leaves on the ground by comparing the leaves to the girls hair
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catherine intihar
catherine intihar
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simile- like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
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Claire Gibbons
Claire Gibbons
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this adds meaning to the poem by helping explain what is happening, and it helps us visualize the words - claire g and lexie f
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Michael Rabold
Michael Rabold
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simile- like girls on hands and knees(use like to compare things)
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Julia Petrie
Julia Petrie
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simile - like girls on hands and knees - uses "like" to compare 2 things
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Grace Cantwell
Grace Cantwell
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helps describe what the branches look like and their motion -Cantwell & Intihar
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
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
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Trent Maisano
Trent Maisano
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Gives a visual on what's happening and on what the author is portraying -Trent and Bella
[Edited]
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sarah cobb
sarah cobb
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shows how theyre moving and how delicate the tree is - brooklyn, gabriela
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Catherine Lyons
Catherine Lyons
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maintains the beat of the poem and helps describe the action -catherine, maddy, and julia
With the same pains you use to fill a cup
Up to the brim, and even above the brim.
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,
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Lexie Francis
Lexie Francis
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This alteration gives the poem flow and better rhythm. -Lexie Francis and Claire Gibbons
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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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catherine intihar
catherine intihar
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depicts what the author is describing to help the reader better understand - grace and catherine
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Leo Pavell
Leo Pavell
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Helps create a better visualization of the poem.(Leo Pavell & Mia Hinze)
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Brooklyn Scythes
Brooklyn Scythes
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It lets reader know the tone of the author and the feelings he is trying to describe. - guzzy + sarah
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amelia moreland
amelia moreland
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simile- uses like to compare life and pathless woods
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Trent Maisano
Trent Maisano
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Supplies a deeper meaning to what the author is trying to say. -Bella and Trent
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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,
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Leo Pavell
Leo Pavell
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"Toward heaven" is a hyperbole, because it's exaggerating in order to emphasize the height of the tree.
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Brooklyn Scythes
Brooklyn Scythes
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"toward heaven" gives a visual of the height of the tree -Sarah Cobb, Gabriela Rotolo, Brooklyn Scythes
But dipped its top and set me down again.
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Grace Cantwell
Grace Cantwell
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personification-the tree is "setting him down" as human would set something down
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Claire Dinovo
Claire Dinovo
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adds a sense of personality and humanity - kaitlyn k
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Colleen Altomari
Colleen Altomari
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This adds to the poem because it gives to the idea that this is his imagination and how he remembered it as a child (Colleen, Richelle)
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Maddy Bellisari
Maddy Bellisari
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personification- but dipped its top and set me down again
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Shannon O'Neil
Shannon O'Neil
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This adds to the poem because if gives the tree importance and characteristics- Sofia and Shannon
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catherine intihar
catherine intihar
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personification- the tree cant actually set him down
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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