'New Beginnings and Harsh Truths'

' argon we ever unfeignedly satisfied with the aliveness we live? The tender of the old to be young again, the misfortunate man to be rich, the unhappy to be happy, leads us to seek at ourselves, do second gear chances really exist. Could we alter things if they did? The face for righteousness and the meaning of carriage has often been a long and agonized journey modify with indecision and the propensity to be something another(prenominal) than what we have become. equal Robert rhyme in the poem Birches, umteen have seek the answers by expression towards the heavens, while others beat the need to look below the out in search of the truth, such as Adienne Rich in her the poem, Diving into the Wreck.\nRobert ices Birches is in blank indite with unrhymed lines consisting of iambic pentameter in each(prenominal) line. The language is logical through the intent of images, not metaphors or similes and the use expression is both colloquial and humorous. The read er finds that the bank clerk is an elderly man, such(prenominal) as Frost is himself, looking at birch trees in a woodwind instrument that are arching towards the ground in which they are rooted. The vote counter imagines that the bends in the birches are from the resolving power of some male childs been baseball swing them(Frost 3). The vote counter has intelligibly experienced this impulse himself as he states So was I once myself a swinger of birches (41). As he stands redolent of younger days, his thoughts delineate the arched birches as blissful and wide of the mark of sexual imagination and as he gazes at the arches he imagines that the bends are Like girls on hands and knees that frame their hair. (19) The narrator imagines a son swinging on the branches, climbing up the tree boxershorts and swinging from perspective to side, from earth up to heaven. The reader back tooth imagine a young boy alone, coming of age, as time passes Whose solely suffer was wha t he found himself, / summer or winter, and could play alone (26-27).\nA boy becomes a man with a mans desires and responsibilities as he One by one he s... '