At one point, the speaker of this work parenthetically asks, "Now am I free to be poetical?"
At one point, the speaker of this work parenthetically asks, "Now am I free to be poetical?" The speaker notes that "Earth's the right place for love", after stating that he would like to temporarily leave it when he feels that "life is too much like a pathless wood/Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs/Broken across it." The speaker uses the image of "girls on hands and knees that throw their hair/Before them" to describe the title things, and states, "Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away/You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen." He imagines a figure "too far from town to learn baseball" "kicking his way down through the air to the ground" and riding the title things "until he took the stiffness out of them", but notes that "swinging doesn't bend them down to stay". For 10 points, name this poem in which the speaker observes the title trees after an ice-storm, a poem by Robert Frost.
At one point, the speaker of this work parenthetically asks, "Now am I free to be poetical?"
{“Birches”}