![]() The shattered ice crystals get collected below the tree as if it were a pile of glass pieces to be swept away. Here the breaking ice has been compared to shattering crystals and glass that falls like an avalanche. ![]() ![]() The ice on the birches is shaken and breaks down into small fragments to fall down on the earth. But this beauty doesn't last long as the ice upon the birches starts to break into pieces due to the warmth of the sun. The ice on the birches shines and turns many coloured as the rays of the sun are refracted into many colours, when passing through the ice. When the wind blows, birches swing up and down with the clicking sound. The rain coats the tree in a sheet of ice, which forms a transparent freezing enamel around the whole tree. He says, you must often have seen birches loaded with ice on a sunny winter morning after a rain. Here the speaker admits that the birches are actually bend down due to the ice storm and not due to the boy's swinging. In these lines the speaker describes the beauty of ice - loaded birch trees in a sunny winter morning. Rather "ice storms" can bent down the trees enough to cause them permanently bent. But in line 4, he acknowledges that the act of swinging from birch trees wouldn't actually make the trees look bent in the way they do now. When the poet observes the birches bending to left and right across the lines of straighter and darker eracted trees in the woods he starts to imagine that a boy had been swinging on them and that is how they got bent. ![]() Here the poet presents a contrast between the normal and simple image of straighter trees with the exciting and interesting image of bent down birch trees.īirches have thin trunks and so they bend easily in the wind and under the weight of snow. The poem begins with the simple image of birches bent "left and right / Across the line of straighter darker trees." ![]()
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