New Beginnings and Harsh Truths

be we ever really at ease with the servicemanners we live? The paying attention of the old to be puppyish again, the poor man to be rich, the unhappy to be happy, leads us to ask ourselves, do flash chances really exist. Could we change things if they did? The appear for truth and the meaning of life has often been a farsighted and painful journey fill up with indecision and the desire to be n reasoning other than what we have become. alike Robert Frost in the metrical composition Birches, many have want the answers by aspecting towards the heavens, dapple others find the need to look below the surface in search of the truth, such as Adienne Rich in her the poem, come down into the Wreck.\nRobert Frosts Birches is in blank verse with unrhymed lines consisting of iambic pentameter in from each unrivalled line. The language is arranged by dint of the use of images, not metaphors or similes and the use diction is both(prenominal) conversational and humorous. The rea der finds that the narrator is an elderly man, much as Frost is himself, looking at birch trees in a forest that argon flex towards the ground in which they are rooted. The narrator imagines that the change form in the birches are from the result of some sons been baseball swing them(Frost 3). The narrator has clearly go through this desire himself as he states So was I formerly myself a swinger of birches (41). As he stands reminiscent of younkerer days, his thoughts portray the arched birches as blissful and full of informal imagery and as he gazes at the arches he imagines that the bends are Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hairsbreadth. (19) The narrator imagines a boy swinging on the branches, move up up the tree trunks and swinging from side to side, from earth up to heaven. The reader thunder mug imagine a young boy all, coming of age, as time passes Whose only mutation was what he found himself, / spend or winter, and could play alone (26-27).\n A boy becomes a man with a mans desires and responsibilities as he One by one he s...