Question

The speaker in "Birches" compares the boy's climbing to A. Girls drying their hair. B. Sweeping up broken glass. C. A forest full of spiderwebs. D. Filling a cup to the top In "Birches", the author uses the line "like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun" to describe A. Children playing in the woods. B. A childhood memory of the summertime. C. The shape of the trees after an ice storm. D. The feeling of cobwebs on the face of a boy.

Answer 1

Answer :

In the poem "Birches" by Robert Frost, the speaker compares the boy's climbing to filling a cup to the top in the following lines:

"He always kept his poise

To the top branches, climbing carefully

With the same pains you use to fill a cup

Up to the brim, and even above the brim."

The author uses the line "like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun" to describe the shape of the trees after an ice storm.

Answer 2

The speaker in "Birches" compares the boy's climbing to D. Filing a cup to the top.

"To the top branches, climbing carefully

With the same pains you use to fill a cup

Up to the brim, and even above the brim."

Afterwards. the author uses the line "like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun" to describe C. The shape of the trees after an ice storm.

"Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning

After a rain. [...]

Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells

Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust— [...]

You may see their trunks arching in the woods

Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground

Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair

Before them over their heads to dry in the sun."