Are similes used in the poem The Brook?

Answer 1

A Similie is the comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as. In the poem "Birches", by Robert Frost there are several similies:

1. referring to the trees: "Trailing their leaves on the ground like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair before them over their heads to dry in the sun."

2. referring to the trees: "But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay as ice storms do."

3. "And life is too much like a pathless wood."

Answer 2

No. This is personification.

Answer 3

yes