12/11/2023 0 Comments Life is too much like a pathless wood![]() Such words like ‘click’, ‘cracks’, ‘crazes’, ‘crystal’, ‘shattering’, ‘tickle’ and ‘lashed’ are utilised as their sound help create meaning. Onomatopoeia : To fasten the reception and retention of meaning, the poet decides to engage onomatopoeia. ![]() Also, in ‘As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored’, the poet speaker personifies the human attribute of rising and turning on breeze. Personification : This device is employed in the line, ‘But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay/As ice-storms do.’ As humans, ice-storms bend these birches. ![]() And this device is seen to run through the poem in complementary effort to dramatic monologue. With this device, readers could visualise even the boyhood experience of the poet speaker and internalise his perception of birches. Imagery : Right from the opening of the poem where the poet recounts, ‘When I see birches bend to left and right/Across the lines of straighter darker trees,’ we recorded the use of imagery. Also, to communicate his displeasure with affairs of the present society, he says, ‘And life is too much like a pathless wood’. Simile : In order to draw the attention of his readers to his intended point of view, the poet speaker deploys simile in ‘… trailing their leaves on ground/Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair’ to describe the way the leaves of long forgotten birches bent by ice storms. Through is also, his frustration is noted as he confesses ‘It’s when I’m weary of considerations/And life is too much like a pathless wood’. Through it, dramatically recaps what his boyhood experience looked like as he is left to swing on birches. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.ĪNALYZING THE POETIC DEVICES AND THEMES IN THE POEMĭramatic Monologue : We notice through the use of the first person pronoun ‘I’ and the second person pronoun ‘You’, the poet has through the device dramatic monologue unveil his thought on how the birches have been neglected in the hands of ice storms to bend.Exam Reflection Literature-in-English (Prose and Drama ) by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi.Exam Reflection Literature- in-English by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi.She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith.One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. That would be good both going and coming back. Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,īut dipped its top and set me down again. I don't know where it's likely to go better.Īnd climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebsįrom a twig's having lashed across it open.Īnd half grant what I wish and snatch me away ".So was I once myself a swinger of birches.Īnd life is too much like a pathless wood We were also reminded of Robert Frost's poem: Nearby, younger birch grow strong and supple with the bark of youth.Īn author we read at the time described the symbolic qualities of birch trees as "new beginnings, cleansing of the past, vision quests." No doubt fanciful, the attributes resonated, and we embraced them as emblematic of our work in this chapter of life. ![]() Many of the trees are mature, bearing the wrinkled skin of decades and the scars from the ice storm of 1998. Exploring the land as our home was being built, we came upon a patch of birches in a corner of the woods where two stone walls meet. Birch Corner is a place of inspiration for us. ![]()
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