"Birches" is one of Frost's best-known early poems, and features a number of vivid sensory images and details. One particularly strong example is the section wherein Frost describes the experience of pushing through life like a "pathless wood", where "your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs / Broken across it, and one eye is weeping/From a twig's having lashed across it open." The image here is multifaceted: Frost evokes the reader's memory of similar...
"Birches" is one of Frost's best-known early poems, and features a number of vivid sensory images and details. One particularly strong example is the section wherein Frost describes the experience of pushing through life like a "pathless wood", where "your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs / Broken across it, and one eye is weeping/From a twig's having lashed across it open." The image here is multifaceted: Frost evokes the reader's memory of similar experiences by including multiple details of how this situation would feel. The cobwebs across the face are one element; the description of the twig lashing across the eye makes the readers own eyes almost "weep" in sympathy. Frost puts together a visceral mental picture by drawing upon sensory experiences all of us have had, in order to help the reader place him or herself in the position Frost describes.
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