Blog for 1/11

The Robert Frost "birches" poem reminds me of driving down the road and seeing a site that reminds you of your child hood, as with him he saw trees that had been damaged from years of snow storms and they reminded him of climbing and playing in trees as a young child and how how he would love to go back to those times where he was a "birch swinger." I'm sure there are plenty of symbolisms that you could look into but I'd prefer to think that this poem is very simple because it reminds me of a time of my childhood that I spent playing in the woods and a very relaxing and simple time. Now I looked at other reviews to see how others read into this poem and it seems like I am pretty close with the reflection of life before you start having responsibilities and the hard ship of later down the road. The other interesting thing that I read was this poem, some feels is about masturbation and very sexual. Although I can see some lines and how people would feel that way I don't agree, but I am also not very good at looking at the symbolism of poems.

Well the more I read poems the more I have decided that I'm not going to look into the meaning/symbolism of a poem, to me, it is what it is and the great thing about a great poem is that you can relate it to either your own life or other around you, or the world in itself. Well on with what I'm thinking, "mending walls" to me is about respecting boundaries, and when fixing them takes the effort of both parties, this could relate to a relationship with a significant other or with friends, and relatives. and even if you don't need to have any "walls" between people we still do. You may put up a "barrier" of emotions or "not let someone in" but why is that really necessary why do we act so "tuff" in life.

"Acquainted With the Night" I can see two different meanings, the first relates more to the outdoors enthusiast, like myself i see this being a not walking the beaten path type of poem and enjoying nature and the solitude that you get when you are outside on a dark, night rather it be rainy or not it is a tranquil and humbling experience in my opinion. but you can also look at this poem in the sense that it is relating to someone trying run away from there wrongs or coming back, you know anytime someone cheats in the movie they always come home and it is dark and rainy... but personally i like to think about back packing an enjoying the out doors and that time of being relaxation....

So what is the promise that he must keep? is it love, i mean really there are only so many promise that people "must" keep, pay taxes and die... so the sleep he is referring too is death and how he still has a long way in his life to go till that point. the rest is referring to stopping and sniffing the roses in life and enjoying what natures beauty offers to al

Even though i feel this may be the easier of all the poems it was my favorite, the heat of desire, and yet the coldness of hate, but really why would anyone want to experience the coldness of an empty heart, that to me doesn't make sense why would you want to die while being lonely. so how would destruction with ice suffice..... scratch that now that i keep thinking about this i'm not really sure why this death would suffice....