In Robert Frost's "Birches," describe the scenario the speaker imagines when he sees the bent brich trees.

As with so many of Frost's poems, "Birches" takes a scene
from nature and the speaker elaborates on this scene. In this poem, it is the sight of
birch trees that appear permanently bent, their "trunks arching in the woods" that leads
the speaker to think about how this happened. The truthful explanation would be the way
in which storms and in particular ice storms bend the birches, forcing them down and in
some cases keeping them that way permanently. However, the speaker would prefer to
imagine that they are bent permanently under the weight of a boy who repeatedly climbs
up the trunks and swings on them:

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One by one he subdued his father's
trees

By riding them down over and over
again

Until he took the stiffness out of
them

And not one but hung limp, not one was
left

For him to
conquer.

Thus it is that we
can see the speaker's admiration for the boy, who sees the trees as needing to be
"conquered" and "subdued." He sees the unbent trees as a challenge which fills him with
excitement. The speaker goes on to talk about this process of bending trees at a literal
and a symbolic level.