e destruction of the earth. For these reasons, this poem illustrates the battle of the speaker between the youthful thoughts of fantasy and the older, more plausible, facts of reality.

The last eight lines seem to be the most important of the poem. These eight lines are an array of jumbled idea pointing to either the speaker's world of reality of the speaker's world of

description of the boy at play, "He learned all there was/To learn about not launching out too soon", "…climbing carefully"; "Kicking his way down through the air to the ground" shows many traits of learning through experience. The clever choice of words in "with the same pains you use to fill a cup" he prompts the reader to remember the pain of growing up with all of the new challenges and tasks associated with growing up. Because of Frost's commitment to using nature to help people explore them, it is not surprising that the most frequent methods in his attempt to deal with this nature-spirit dualism is the juxtaposition of reality and fantasy.

The conclusion of the poem is confusing because it is difficult for the reader to understand why the speaker claims, "That would be good both going and coming back." He could mean the feeling of free falling with the climax of springing upward, or he could refer to belief that one-day he will be reincarnated. In any case, he wished he could escape the pressures of everyday life by living or at least visiting the fantasy world he/she has created. This fantasy world is one which children in every day life create, and in which the speaker cane remember creating several years ago.

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Robert Frost, Frost's Birches, fantasy world, world fantasy, eight lines, fantasy offers, poem illustrates, pathless wood, escape reality, trees bent, trees /, description boy,