Birches by Robert Frost

     I really liked this poem and can relate to it in some ways. The author finds himself looking at some birch trees after an ice storm. He describes the scene by saying "loaded with ice on a sunny winter morning. After a rain, they click upon themselves". In these few lines he is describing what the trees look like after the ice storm. To me at this point it seems that the author is a little sad that the trees are damaged from the ice storm. In the middle of the poem he says "I prefer to have some boy bend them", meaning he would rather see the trees leaning over with limbs dragging the ground from children climbing on them instead of them being damaged from the ice storm.
     At this point i can see that by looking at the trees the author is taken back to his childhood. He seems to reminisce on the days of his boyhood when he used to climb trees for fun. I think he is saddened by the fact that kids are doing other things for fun since he has grown up instead of the things he used to do as a kid. I also think that he would like to take a timeout from his adult life and go back to his childhood days just so he can have no stress and worries for a while. Towards the end of the poem he says "I'd like to get away from earth for a while and then come back to it and begin over". To me these two line strongly suggest that he dearly misses his childhood days. 
     I often times find myself running across things I used to do as a child and wish i could go back to those days. After reading this poem i believe me and Robert Frost have at least one thing in common.