In “Birches,” Robert Frost celebrates imagination as a way to escape life’s difficulties and reconnect with innocence. The speaker wishes to “get away from earth awhile” but also understands that he must eventually return to reality. Think about the role of imagination in your own life. How does imagination help you cope with challenges, boredom, or stress?

 Prompt: My imagination helps me cope with challenges by imagining a positive outcome. That comes from me using my challenges to better my self and teach me lessons. It helps me cope with stress by thinking about the good things in my life. It helps me cope with boredom by thinking about past scenarios that happened in my life.

Summary: Read and analyzed a poem, then did our blog post.

Reflection: Learned how to find a theme of a poem.

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