A simile in this poem describes "girls on hands and knees that throw their hair / Before them over their heads to dry in the sun." In a book titled "How to Write About" its author, Harold Bloom notes how this poem's use of blank verse allows it to be written in iambic pentameter but sound like norma
A simile in this poem describes "girls on hands and knees that throw their hair / Before them over their heads to dry in the sun." In a book titled "How to Write About" its author, Harold Bloom notes how this poem's use of blank verse allows it to be written in iambic pentameter but sound like normal spoken English if read aloud. Its speaker sees such "heaps of broken glass" that he thinks "the inner dome of heaven had fallen." A turn comes in the middle of this poem when (*) Truth breaks in with a matter-of-fact reminder about an ice storm. It praises solitary play in its description of a boy who lives too far from town to play baseball, and who instead bends branches by swinging amongst the title trees. For 10 points, name this poem by Robert Frost.
A simile in this poem describes "girls on hands and knees that throw their hair /
"Birches"