In “Birches,” Robert Frost celebrates imagination as a way to escape life’s difficulties and reconnect with innocence. The speaker wishes to “get away from earth awhile” but also understands that he must eventually return to reality. Think about the role of imagination in your own life. How does imagination help you cope with challenges, boredom, or stress?

 Prompt: In “Birches,” Robert Frost celebrates imagination as a way to escape life’s difficulties and reconnect with innocence. The speaker wishes to “get away from earth awhile” but also understands that he must eventually return to reality. Think about the role of imagination in your own life. How does imagination help you cope with challenges, boredom, or stress? 

Prompt Response:

It helped a lot to get through quarantine and through my boredom, since I had no friend connections at the time nor did I have a good relationship with my family I had to use my imagination into things and while also watching shows that helped ease my boredom. During my years in middle school, I used imagination to help entertain me during school hours since I did not make any friends at the time and they were strict on the phones and laptops. During elementary I also did not have many friends nor did I like playing with the other kids so I would be alone using my imagination as entertainment. I would get books from the library to also boost up my imagination, when things got bad it helped ease my stress as well, I can just say that imagination had really helped me through stuff.

Summary:

Today we read another poem named, "Birches" by Robert Frost and as we read along we took annotations. This poem took most of the class time to break it down and getting to the theme, Mr. Read also says that this poem is a life lesson to us. We learned in this poem that the narrator wants to go back to his childhood and how he would like to return to it. The whole time we read this, my classmates next to me seemed to find a second meaning to the narrator's words as well, I found it funny myself. In the end of class Mr Rease introduced this new project we need to do and could work on it at home in during Friday in class.

Reflection:

I learned how an author can connect his childhood to trees, Birches, and how you can take so many things out of the poem. When we annotated the poem with Mr. Rease, I can see there was so much information taken out of it and how it helped me understand the poem more.