Check out our page of links. Click here . Spotlight Birches and Mowing Birches was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in August 1915. It was later included in the volume Mountain Interval .
Birches are a common sight in New England.
A boy too far from town to play baseball ' has mastered the art of swinging on the birches. The graphic description of swinging on the birches arouses heartfelt joy in the activity and added to it is the poet's own nostalgia of his boyhood days. And so he's reminded that the trees are bent due to the ice storms and not due to the swinging, as he would like to believe. After a rain. They click upon themselves As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.