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English, 15.05.2021 02:40 PrincessAlaia01

These lines in the poem “Birches” serve what purpose? With the same pains you use to fill a cup
Up to the brim, and even above the brim

1) To illustrate how carelessly the boy climbs up the branches of the tree.

2) To compare the boys careless treatment of his fathers trees to a cup that someone purposefully overflows.

3) As a way to illustrate just how poised and balanced the boy is when he climbs to the very top of the trees

4) He is comparing the overflowing of a cup to the clumsy falls that the boy makes from the tops of the trees.

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