READING AND CONTENT ANALYSIS OF NON-AFRICAN POETRY- “Birches” by Robert Frost : LSUS
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SSS2 Third TERM
WEEK ONE
READING AND CONTENT ANALYSIS OF NON-AFRICAN POETRY- “Birches” by Robert Frost
CONTENT
REFERENCES
- She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith.
- Exam Reflection Literature- in-English by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi.
- Exam Reflection Literature-in-English (Prose and Drama) by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi.
- The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
TOPIC: READING AND CONTENT ANALYSIS OF NON-AFRICAN POETRY- “Birches” by Robert Frost
Content Analysis
The poem, “Birches” by Frost is a dramatic monologue that highlights the poet persona’s observation of the trees, birches. He recognises that the ‘birches bend to left and right/Across the lines of straighter darker trees’. From his intuition, he had imagined that the bend is as a result of ‘some boy’s been swinging them.’ But on a second note, he sees that this kind.... View More
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