Frost Poems ENGL 215

I enjoyed Robert Frost's poem Birches. He uses a whole lot of detail when describing certain objects such as the tree. He describes what the tree looks like in so many different ways that you can get a pretty vivid picture in your mind. He basically describes the tree with the birches as it changes throughout the year and through all of the seasons. When he begins to talk about the leaves falling off onto the ground as if a girl on her hands and knees throws her hair before her to let it dry in the sun, i get a little confused. He uses such a great amount of detail i begin to lose focus on what he's really trying to get at. After all this detail he begins to go back to the boy who swings on the birches. The was the part of the poem that i began to understand mostly. He begins to talk about how he wishes he were young again and could go swing on birches like the boy can. Being his age there is not much more for him to look forward to, life is like a "pathless wood" with "cobwebs," when your still young life is more exciting and fun. Getting away from that life and trying it over again.
Mending wall was very interesting to me. Walls can do both good and bad for situations. If you build a wall it is like your blocking yourself from relationships. It divides two things, like him and his neighbor. His neighbor is all pine trees and on Frost's side of the wall is an apple orchard, with the wall in place, the apples from frost will never get to his neighbors side. Like a blocked friendship. All his neighbor says about the wall is that "Good fences make good neighbors" this reminds me of the television show Home Improvement, there was a large fence or wall dividing Tim's yard and his neighbors, yet his neighbor and him were great friends. I guess what the neighbor in frost's poem is saying that walls can enable better friendships? a place to meet and discuss maybe? or having the wall there creates a perfect amount of seeing someone but not too much to where you begin to dislike the individual. This is a very interesting poem to me, i feel like i don't understand it at all, but at the same time I do it is just hard to express the meaning of it.