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Question 1) Do you ever yearn to escape reality for a while? Why or why not?
Question 2) (a) What is the connection between the ice storm and the bent birches? (b) What does the speaker prefer to think when he sees birches "bend to left and right?" (c) What does the speaker feel about the facts concerning the real causes of the bowed trees?
Question 3) (a) What is the connection between the "swinger of birches" and the speaker? (b) What does the activity of swinging on birches come to symbolize for the speaker in the poem?
Question 4) What does the speaker say he would like to "begin over?" (b) What aspects of this poem reflect the speaker's conflicting attitudes about life?
Question 5) What kids of events, experiences, and feelings in his life might have caused the speaker to make the admission expressed in lines 48-49?
Questions:
2) (a) In the first stanza of "Stopping by Woods," what does the speaker do? (b) What internal conflict do these actions cause?
3) (a) What phrase is repeated in the poem's last two lines? (b) How does this repetition reinforce the poem's theme?
4) (a) In "Mending Wall," what two causes of gaps in walls does the speaker identify? (b) In what ways are these two causes expressions of a general force the speaker struggles to name?