Robert Frost describes a childhood experience and the feelings acquired from it through the application of figurative language. Too began, Frost describes a beautiful scene of a childhood. In this scene, trees take the main focal point and are depicted through a simile of being “like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair/ before them over their heads to dry in the sun” (18/19). This referencing the tree's leaves and how they limp near the ground just how a girl would flip her hair down. This simile goes to help create the imagery in the childhood scene by magnifying the perception of the environment. Further on in the poem, It's starting to get more in-depth within the childhood story by incorporating a boy as the main character
