Today we are looking at the poem Birches, written by Robert Frost. A poem in blank verse that contemplates the loss of youth and the importance of nature to provide perspective when we are “weary of considerations, / and life is too much like a pathless wood.”
Information on Robert Frost from Britannica.
Critical Essay by George Monteiro
Read the poem on Poetry Foundation.
Hear Robert Frost read Birches on YouTube.











