Discuss the significant features of Robert Frost’s poetry? Answer with special reference to ‘Mending Wall’ and ‘Birches’.

and in wintry weather. Frost imagines a rural boy climbing the birch tree, a boy who
lives too far from town to enjoy baseball, and whose only entertainment IS nature
(Frost draws on his om childhood memories as a “swinger of birches” here). He
says he longs for the return of those innocent pursuits.

In the next part of the poem (L43ff) Frost compares life’s difficulties and hardships to the difficulties of walking through a “pathless wood” and says that he longs to get away from the pressures of life, not in the sense of dying, but in the sense of climbing a birch tree, tipping its branches towards heaven, and then returning to earth. By this metaphor Frost wants to suggest he wants to be able to return to the innocence and beauty of nature, to let nature refresh him, and then to return to the everyday grind of life on earth. He does not dislike earth–“Earth’s the right place