Poets use imagery to convey meaning, feelings, and emotions. The contemporary poet best know for his use of imagery is Robert Frost. The Road Not Taken, opened the eyes of poetic readers and critics to Frost’s artistic creations. He uses forms of language such as diction and syntax to capture and move the reader. When read literally Robert Frost’s Birches is the speakers observations of the birch trees in a calm New England …showed first 75 words of 1121 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1121 total…syntax to carry the reader through worlds of the present, the past and that of a dream. Allowing him or her to be part of every word and phrase. His words are left to interpretation, one may read Birches purely at face value, taking the denotation of each word to explain the overall meaning of the poem or reading through their connotation, allowing the poem to be read in terms of the reader’s life.