How Does Robert Frost Manipulate The Image Of An Ice Storm

Robert Frost manipulates the image of an ice storm in order to suggest the mistakes and regretful choices that are made throughout our lives, that can't always be changed. Frost starts of his poem by writing, “ When I see birches bend left and right/ Across the lines of straighter darker trees,/ I like to think some boy has been swinging on them”(1-3). Frost allows a picture of dense line of low hanging trees to be painted, the bent trees are a symbol of all the past mistakes frost has made that can’t be fixed. Frost continues on by saying, “ As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored/ as the stir cracks and crazes their enamel”(8-9). Frost uses the alliteration “cracks and crazes” to add the sound effect of the ice on the leaves hitting and