We could often find ourselves leafing through a photo album from our youth or a neighborhood park and reflecting on our experiences as children, on the innocence that accompanied our almost singular vision of the world around us and on the joy created even in more mundane activities. Robert Frost touches on these thoughts in his poem “Birches” as he recounts his childhood and his memories, through the observation of birch trees bent by the ice of winter. Although the trees have been bowed by the elements of the cold, Frost prefers that they have become that way through the activity of children riding down them and how the act of riding birch trees is a reflection of childhood, as well as a representation of childhood innocence. In his poem "Birches" Frost reflects on the innocence of childhood, its contrast with the harsh realities of life, and how both childhood and the realities of life are mutually beneficial. he is reminded of his childhood memories, the way he associates trees with his youthful activities. Frost immediately reflects on the trees in the poem, referring to how he would prefer birch trees to be bent by boys at play. “When I see birches bent left and right through the rows of straighter, darker trees, I like to think that some boy has been swinging them” (1-3). In this passage Frost begins the poem with the opinion that, seeing the birch bent, he would prefer birches were bent by boys. In this case Frost shows a preference for the innocence, almost destructiveness, of children over the nature that has subjugated the trees. Because the children who bent the birches perceived......the center of the paper......shows these ideals by observing the subdued birches and explaining his preference for them by having been bent by a boy playing, the whose only option as a child was to use his imagination due to the isolation. Frost also conveys the contrast of the child's playfulness by acknowledging the reality of how the birch trees have bent, being the product of the ice and suppression of a winter. Finally Frost recognizes that both the imaginative nature of childhood and the realities of nature complement each other, as both allow the other to reach their full potential and would not fully survive without its counterpart. Although Frost focuses on supposedly minor topics, the subject matter of which is often overlooked and set aside, Frost's words and powerful descriptions bring relevance, contemplation, and beauty to even the most mundane topics, a subdued birch.