Question

Read the excerpt from “Birches” by Robert Frost. When I see birches bend to left and right Across the line of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay. Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a rain. They click upon themselves As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel. Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust— Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You’d think the inner dome of heaven had fallen. Which lines describe the ice wrapping the tree branches?

Answer 1

I think the answer is They click upon themselves As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.

Answer 2

The lines that show that the tree branches were covered with ice are as follows in quotation marks below. A line shows ice as “crystal shells” that cover the branches and would “shatter” with the coming of the sun’s rays.

"Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells/Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust.."