our minds even after it's over. "Years afterwards" that problem might still be thought of in.
a situation just like Frost describes: "You may see their trunks arching in the woods Years.
afterwards- (lines 17, 18). .
Reality vs. imagination is explored with the symbolism of a boy used to represent.
imagination. Despite the fact that he knows the truth of why the birches are bent, he.
refines the image of the boy in lines 28-29, by stating "One by one he subdued his father's.
trees / By riding them down over and over again." Frost gives a clear explanation of how.
the boy swings the trees in these lines. Frost states a couple of lines later that the boy.
knows how far to bend the tree before he can break it. This enhances the idea that the boy.
plays by himself because he's "too far away from town" (line 25). In lines thirty-one and.
thirty-two the boy is victorious of putting the trees down, " not one was left / For him to.
conquer." Here Frost shows that imagination just had victory over reality. His.
interpretation replaced the reality of the ice storm being the cause (Thomason 15,16). .
This brings us back to the idea that the boy portrays imagination because when we.
imagine it is to escape reality. For example, if we live in a regular house we might state.
one-day, "Imagine I wake up one morning and I own a mansion." By stating this, we.
would be escaping reality for a moment, picturing h from studentcentral.co.uk ow we.
might feel if it were to really come true. With this in mind, Frost is suggesting that if we.
learn how to master our skill in imagining then it will increase the ability we have to handle.
any bad situation that might arise in our lives. For this reason the speaker supports the.
reader to use their imagination in line 48 by letting us know that he himself likes "to get.
away from earth awhile." .
The final way Frost gets the theme across of reality vs. imagination is through the tone.
used in the poem. He chooses certain words and details that make the point clearer that.