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Something Wonderful: Robert Frost’s “Birches”: A Visual Interpretation by Julian Peters

by Vanderleun on March 22, 2018

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AND just so Frost doesn’t strike you as too sweet, here’s another poet wandering in a “pathless wood.”

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u.k.(us) March 22, 2018, 2:24 PM

Nothing like a walk through an “empty” forest to awaken ones senses.

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Transgender Aisha March 22, 2018, 2:34 PM

I first read that as “Bitches”.

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ghostsniper March 22, 2018, 7:09 PM

I likes me sum birches, but alas they are rare in these parts.
There is no such thing as an empty forest – they are full of life that is unrecognizable to the inexperienced.

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Ed March 23, 2018, 2:38 AM

I used to swing maples. They grew thick along a hedgerow bordering our field. Lotsa fun. Cheap thrills. Didn’t hurt anything.

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bob sykes March 23, 2018, 4:48 AM

In northeast rural Massachusetts, birches grow wild in clumps. And, yes, we did climb and ride them down.

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Year upon year in Earth’s darker forests,
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Which sunlight shall never seize.

The vampire by sunlight or stake.
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