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This paper explains how Robert Frost's poem, "Birches," describes the poet's concern about mortality and his desire to go to heaven and come back so that he can continue to swing on the birches.

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"In the poem "Birches" by Robert Frost, the poet uses the metaphor of a boy swinging on birch branches to reveal his desire to return to his youth instead of having to leave existence due to his mortality. Frost points out that although boys bend birch trees by swinging on them, it is nature's processes that keep them bent forever. He states; "When I see birches bend to left and right I like to think some boy's been swinging them.".

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