The poem opens with the speaker noticing some birch trees which have been bent down to the ground after an ice-storm:
Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. (5 - 7)
Notice how Frost involves his readers here by using the second person pronoun “you” to address us directly, and assuming that we too have seen this particular sight. However, despite, the speaker’s realisation that nature has caused the damage to the trees, he cannot help offering a more romantic possibility: