Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg

                These are two poets that I frequently hear about in the world of poetry. Robert Frost’s “Birches” is a poem that illustrates a young boy climbing a tree to the top to be lowered to the ground by the bending of its branches. In my own interpretation, I thought of this as a young person who climbs to the top of the world by way of power or ambition, but when he reaches too high, that the world can no longer bear him, the tree puts him back on the ground. Doing this repeated times makes the tree grow weary, and in the poem are themes of rebirth and continuation with a sense that there will be an end when rebirth can occur no more. This is my dark interpretation of an otherwise whimsical poem.

                I liked the Simplicity, or understandability  of Carl Sandburg’s “Grass”.  The repetition between stanzas is significant somehow in providing significance of how the grass deletes old memories. That even though a significant act may happen, when the surface of the problem is covered up, no one else knows what happened unless you experienced it yourself. This poem is likely a message that things aren’t only what they seem on the outside.