Birches: Loneliness, Love, and the Desire to SucceedRobert Frost uses the poem Birches to illustrate his personal experience of three things through the bending of trees. The three things are solitude, love and the desire to achieve. Frost's description of loneliness is provided immediately after he first refers to himself with his specific description in line 20. There he states: "I would rather a boy bend (the birches )". He describes the loneliness of his youthful lifestyle, writing that he was a boy on a farm "too far from town to learn baseball whose only game was within himself." The most exciting thing for him to do was swing the birch trees. His attempts to "overcome" loneliness were demonstrated through the vehicle of the birch trees. as a child trying to overcome loneliness, the lesson of "practice makes perfect." Frost says "He always kept his balance to the top of the branches climbing carefully with... pain... Then he threw himself outwards, feet first, with a rustling sound that made its way through the air to the ground." He learned here that there are times in life when the we manage to overcome a situation and put an end to it. Then you'll fly away happily knowing you've conquered it. Love is one of these situations. Frost was apparently hurt by love before declaring: "I would like to get away from the earth, then return to it and start again. May no fate willingly understand me and half grant what I wish and m 'tear off so as not to come back.' Apparently his heart was ripped out by a lost love. He may think it's because he submitted to her in a vulnerable way. If he had the chance to do it again, maybe he wouldn't submit so much to the next thief. However, he definitely has the desire to achieve love. His desire to achieve is described when he states how he would like to achieve love. Frost says "I would like to climb a birch tree, and climb... towards the sky (the summit or the ultimate of one's desire, whether it be love or something else) until the tree (or the world) can't take it anymore. , But I plunged its tip and rested.