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down to earth so that we may be perceive a different earth in the third stanza. It can be seen that reality and the understanding of reality also follow this same trip on the birches. The reality that everyone faces everyday is introduced in the first stanza and reality is broken in with a rampage of imagination in the second stanza. Finally a newer and more enlightened reality can be seen by the end of the trip down on earth.
The word "truth" has to be defined to understand what Frost is really saying about the choices he has to make. Webster's New World Dictionary defines truth as "being true" but in one of the more specific meaning that defines truth is "reality." This is the earth's truth that Frost describes in the beginning of "Birches." Another way of putting this is that earth's truth is nature with its fire, wind, rain, etc… Heaven's truth can be defined through many eyes as spiritual, imagination, or insight. So the enigmatic truth lies in us and all around us. This is ...

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to stay
As ice storm do. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice sunny winter morning
After a rain. They click upon themselves
As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.

Frost puts fact in place of that joyful feeling. Squires points out that Frost "--begins in 'Birches' by setting forth 'fact'." The fact is that "--swinging doesn't bend them[birches] down to stay as ice storms do." The fact is then expressed even further about how an ice storm has an effect on birches. Frost uses the word "loaded" to express the strength of the ice storm on the sixth line, as if we are the same, "loaded" down on earth by the ...

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