Birches by Robert Frost

It seems as though Frost is trying to connect nature and humanity together. He uses the nature to describe human experience and the nature of the boy and youth as well as growth and he uses the word "subdue" and "conquer" to describe the boy taking over his fathers trees, this could mean that the boy is conquering the fathers ideas, questioning it, and changing it and making it his own. The authos also says "Whose only play was what he found himself, Summer or winter, and could play alone." This could mean that he doesnt need anybody to play with because there is so much to do so much to question and learn and experiment with (take over) that he needs noone but himself to play, summer or winter. "he took the stiffness out of them, And not one but hung limp, not one was left For him to conquer" meaning probably that the boy revised his fathers trees and made it better, questioned it like it hasnt been questioned before. The boy climbing the tree towards heaven being further away from earth symbolizes imagination and being in another state of mind, but also being further away the things that the earth has to offer which is love, and this whole idea of the poem I think is that Frost also goes back and forth between the imagination of the youth and the reality and the sense of awareness of the father (adult) and he goes back and forth between those two, Frost likes to think of the imagination when he says he prefers the boy bending the birches, but he also describes the reason why the birches are really bend but he doesnt want to go to the reality since he is already there, but wants to go back to that state of imagination, that state of being high on the tree towards heaven as opposed to the earth.