english test
"Birches"
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- where is Robert Frost from?
- Massachusetts
- what is teh rhythm of "Birches"?
- iambic pentameter
- describe the second picture that is given in "Birches".
- In teh summer birch trees have leaves and branches that drag on the ground because they are bent.
- describe the third picture that is given in "Birches".
- The swinger of birches is a farm boy from the country who does not play baseball and has swung on all the birch trees as he was taking the cows in and out for feeding.
- what did the author stop to look at?
- the line of birch trees
- who is a New England poet?
- Robert Frost
- describe the fourth picture that is given in "Birches".
- The author dreams of becoming a swinger of birches again because he is tired of the troubles and worries of life and he just wants to climb a birch tree to heaven.
- tall, this, very bendable
- birch trees
- what does the author notice when he looks at the birch trees?
- that some of them are bent over
- what form is "Birches" written in?
- blank verse
- discribe the first picture that is given in "Birches".
- In the winter the trees are snowy, covered in ice (which is making them bend because its heavy), and have no leaves. There are also piles of ice on the ground under the trees from where the ice melted and fell off.
- what are 2 reasons why the trees might be bent over?
- 1.) a boy may have been swinging on them; 2.) an ice storm may have bent them