Frost depicts time in such a way that it is obscured and inconspicuous through the use of dictions and techniques such as metaphor and imagery. His poem possesses a substantial amount of the elements of time that relates in with every moment one have experienced from life to death. The importance of time is also expressed as Frost living at a rather transitional time from traditional to contemporary, reflecting an evolution of the society and the ways of how modernism is viewed and perceived through his poems. The inevitability of the resulting outcome in ones’ life is an important implied theme behind time. In Birches, Frost’s depiction of the inevitable death is established through the destinations of the Birch tree, “At first to
