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Robert Frost's "Birches"

Robert Frost's "Birches"

The Daily Poem · Sean Johnson

October 14, 20255m 34s

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Show Notes

Today’s poem is a classical example of Frost’s virtuosity in crafting solid figures–here trees, climbing, etc.–that stubbornly defy allegorizing, but that simultaneously seem effortlessly to point beyond themselves. Happy reading.



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