The speaker in "Birches" compares the boy's climbing to
a. girls dying there hair
b. sweeping up broken glass
c. a forest full of spiderwebs
d. filling a cup to the top
I think D
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Why do you say that? What lines in the poem describe a boy's climbing?
"With the same pains you use to fill a cup
Up to the brim, and even above the brim.
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground."
Up to the brim, and even above the brim.
Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish,
Kicking his way down through the air to the ground."
He's jumping out of the tree in those lines. He's not climbing.
Wait sorry I forgot the first line:
To the top branches, climbing carefully
To the top branches, climbing carefully
OK. You're probably right.