... birches in line 5 when he states "Ice-storms do that." In the next six lines, Erica Smith notes, "we are inclined to view the ice storm negatively because Frost has used it to refute his hoped-for explanation in line three" (Smith 20). A couple of lines later Frost gives us an insight into how ... The situation is that after they are kept down for a long time they can never be straight again. They are permanently stuck in this "bowed" position. We can compare these three lines to our lives because reality is that although we have problems we don't "break" or fall apart every time a proble...

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