How Does Frost Use Imagery To Describe The Bich Trees

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Frost uses a great deal of imagery to describe the birch trees and the effects of nature and humans have on it. He starts off by describing how they bend left to right, and how there are dark lines left on them possibly by young boys swinging on them. Then he moves on to hostal shells ice storms have a longer lasting effect on the trees and how the next morning the sun comes out after the rain and the ice begins to crackle and fall off the trees. “As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells”(Frost 9-10).This is an example of the descriptive vocabulary that is used throughout the whole first movement. In the second movement Frost uses another description this time comparing the arched