Analysis of a Black Birch in WinterThis poem is extremely easy to understand if you understand the comparison made. Although saying that a tree may appear old in winter, it will be resurrected in spring, this is what Wilbur is talking about, he narrates and compares this to the life of an aging man. The poem states that "old trees are doomed to annual rebirth, to new wood, to new life, to a new compass and greater girth." This means the tree will stretch and crack year after year to accommodate new growth. It feels like a rebirth of the tree every year, but also like an aging process. The poem is about the old tree and connects it to an old man. “Or the sharp features of an elderly man.” This means that the tree is comparable to the old man because it grows, stretches and cracks over the years. Humans age and also become more wrinkled or “cracked”. It will continue to become more and more wrinkled and cracked as the years go by. The tree can be seen as something unremarkable, like “mosaic columns in a church,” with the features of an elderly man. The mosaic columns appear large and old, probably scarred by weather and time, like a tree. Looking at and studying the old tree and its annual rebirth, one might notice that it is an art form. "And this is all their wisdom and their art, to grow, to stretch, to crack, and not yet to disintegrate. The older trees become the stronger they usually become. When we look at the cracks and features of the tree, one can notice how strong and powerful it is The tree is wise from all the patterns and age marks on the tree The rings are features that can. indicate the age of a tree. As the tree grows each year and becomes stronger, the rings build around the old wood, making the tree bigger. that some critics of the psychological method use. Yonic and phallic symbols are images that represent feminine and masculine images. Yonic symbols are concave symbols, which refer to women...