l there was
             To learn about not launching out too soon.
             This boy lives away from town and must play by himself. He has learned his father's lessons.
             Imagination is the gift for escaping reality that each one of us possesses. We do not have to
             depend on anyone to take a mental vacation. Mastering your art of imagination will increase your
             ability to handle the bad things life dishes out.
             That's why the narrator advocates using imagination. On Earth we can become weary from life's
             everyday occurrences--that "pathless wood." However, Earth's the place for love--not hate,
             weariness, or any negative feelings. Therefore, use imagination to come back to reality relaxed. At
             the end, the narrator imagines climbing the birch tree "Toward heaven"--to the top and swinging a
             branch down to the ground. Suddenly he sounds relaxed and carefree. Isn't this better than the
             villain "Truth"? It sounds like imagination works.
             CONSIDERATIONS OF CRAFT
             Often you must have seen them
             Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
             After a rain.
             This passage begins the visual journey through the woods. In this journey, Frost wants the reader
             to see the birches as they really are and as they seem in a series of pleasant images. Part of the
             realism comes from the sound of passages like this one:
             They click upon themselves
             As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored
             ...