Question

I need help with 6 question please SOMEONE HELP ITS MY LAST TEST OF THE YEAR

Answer 1

Birches

by Robert Frost
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.
But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay
As ice storms do. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a 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.
Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells
Shattering and avalanching on the snow crust—
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
You’d think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves:
You may see their trunks arching in the woods
Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground
Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair
Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.
But I was going to say when Truth broke in
With all her matter of fact about the ice storm,
I should prefer to have some boy bend them
As he went out and in to fetch the cows—
Some boy too far from town to learn baseball,
Whose only play was what he found himself,
Summer or winter, and could play alone.
One by one he subdued his father’s trees
By riding them down over and over again,
Until he took the stiffness out of them,
And not one but hung limp, not one was left
For him to conquer. He learned all there was
To learn about not launching out too soon
And so not carrying the tree away
Clear to the ground. He always kept his poise
To the top branches, climbing carefully
With the same pains you use to fill a cup
Up to the brim, and even above the brim.
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish.
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground.
So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
It’s when I’m weary of considerations,
And life is too much 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.
I’d like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Answer 2

The more i read i do not understand, and i have 6 question i need to answer based on this poem

Answer 3

What does Frost say is the reason why birch trees become permanently bent?
A) Boys swinging on them
B) Old age and lack of care
C) Disease
D) Ice storms
18.
What causes the noise that occurs after an ice storm?
A) The trees’ bark cracks as they begin to straighten up.
B) The ice encasing the branches falls to the ground as the sun warms it.
C) The trees’ limbs rub against each other and other trees.
D) The trees crash to the ground because they have been uprooted by the storm.
19.
To what does Frost compare the bent trees and their leaves?
A) Enameled vases, whose glaze has cracked
B) Crystal that has shattered and fallen onto the ground
C) Girls on hands and knees drying their hair in the sun
D) Boys riding the trees as if they were horses
20.
How does Frost compare the swinging of birches by boys and the bending caused by ice storms?
A) Ice storms permanently bend the trees, whereas swinging makes them flexible.
B) Ice storms break tree branches, whereas swinging merely bends them over.
C) Swinging makes the trees grow faster whereas ice storms stunt their growth.
D) Neither has any permanent effect and does not hurt the trees.
21.
Which of the following best explains what the poet mean when he talks about his face being burnt and tickled with cobwebs?
A) He has had many frustrations and difficulties in life.
B) He has had to do very dirty work to make a living.
C) He has been suffered from accidents and hard work.
D) He has lived most of his life in rugged, rural areas.
22.
Frost says he—
A) wishes he could permanently leave this world for a safer place
B) no longer has dreams like those he had when he was young
C) wishes that boys would not swing on trees because it damages them
D) knows that Earth is where he belongs and there is no place better
23.
What is Frost saying about life when he says the boy avoids “launching out too soon”?
A) It is important to grab what you need as soon as you are able.
B) Always look to your parents or other adults for help when you have problems.
C) Take care not to respond too impulsively to events that happen in your life.
D) Do not expect that things will always go your way.
24.
This poem is an example of a—
A) catalog poem
B) lyric poem
C) sonnet
D) ballad

Answer 4

most of the answers are in the poem in the mildle look thorw there cause i dont know half of them

Answer 5

ok

Answer 6

Well i have read through this poem atleast 5 times and still can't understand it

Answer 7

Question 1: Do you go to connexus? @YOLO_KING
Question 2: What class is this for?