Frost reading Birches
"Birches" can be read with two different views depending on the readers view. If you read it with a childish/naive views then you have just read a story about the fun that boys have when they're young but must soon grow up.
On the other hand "Birches" can be read with a more mature/sexual view(Because Frost was not afraid to get a little dirty in his poems) then you would be reading a story about a boys playing with birches (masturbation), but eventually having to grow up and move on the bigger and better things(real women)
Also while you're listening to the Frost read "Birches" on the link, also read the "Everyday Harkness discussion going on with the people in the comment box.
I agree completely with that statement. I thought of "Birches" as a poem about a loss of innocence. I connected the poem to "Catcher and the Rye" by J.D. Salinger, for in that book the character wishes to return back in time, and is very nostalgic as is the narrator in "Birches".
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