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Poem - Trees

The document contains a series of short answer questions, value-based questions, and extract-based questions related to the poem 'The Trees.' It explores themes such as the departure of trees, their struggle for freedom, and the conflict between man and nature. The questions aim to analyze the poet's imagery, emotions, and the broader implications of deforestation.

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Poem - Trees

The document contains a series of short answer questions, value-based questions, and extract-based questions related to the poem 'The Trees.' It explores themes such as the departure of trees, their struggle for freedom, and the conflict between man and nature. The questions aim to analyze the poet's imagery, emotions, and the broader implications of deforestation.

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Unit.5.

Poem:The Trees
I. Short Answer Questions:
• What changes would the departure of the trees bring to the forest?
• Why are the trees moving out? What efforts do the trees make to
get free?
• Why doesn’t the poet mention the departure of trees in her letters?
• Describe the imagery drawn by the poet in the line-“The moon is
between like a mirror”.
• Where are the trees kept? Why are they kept there?
• What happens to the sun when the trees move out?
• Do you think the poet is happy about the trees that are moving out of
her house?
• What types of plants are mentioned in the poem? • Why are trees
stumbling forward?
• What picture do these words create in your mind:”…. no sun bury its
feet in shadow …”?
* What could the poetess mean by the sun’s ‘feet?’
• What does the poetess want to convey to the readers through the
poem ‘The Trees?’
• What types of trees are described in the poem ‘The Trees?’
• Why is the description of the moon different in the beginning and at
the end of the third tanza?
• Why does the poetess use the metaphor of newly discharged
patients?
• Why is the poetess hopeful that the empty forest will be full of trees
by the morning?
• What is the central idea of the poem ‘The Trees’?
• Where are the trees at present? What do their roots, and leaves do?
• Why is the description of the moon different in the beginning and at
the end of the third stanza?
• Justify the revolt of the trees and state two values which the man
should possess to stop the revolt?
• How does the poetess describe the might? How does she feel?
• What is the theme of the poem ‘The Trees’?
• Why are the trees described in the first stanza not useful for birds or
insects?
• What happens to the roots and leaves of these trees at night?
• How does the poetess describe the growth of the trees inside the
houses?
• ‘Departure is painful’. So is the departure of the trees painful for the
poetess. What will happen after their departure?
II. Value based Questions:
1• Do you think that trees are right in asserting freedom and breaking
the boundaries? Is it important? How?
2 Analyze the efforts that one puts into break away captivity and strive
for freedom; as the trees in the poem stretch out their branches, break
barriers and struggle hard to move out in the open in their natural
environment.
3• A conflict between man and nature is going on .In this civilization
persists men are disregarding the natural growth of plants and trees.
In total confinement, nature also rebels against civilization and
becomes destructive .Elaborate.
4• Who is responsible for empty forests according to you? You may
refer to the same with the poem. “The Trees “.
5• Justify the revolt of the trees and state some values which the man
should possess to stop the revolt.
6• ‘Departure is painful.’ So is the departure of the trees painful for the
poetess, what will happen after their departure?
7• How does the poem ‘The Trees’ make a strong plea against
deforestation? (Value based)

III. Extract Based Questions:


Read the following extracts carefully and answer the following:
1• Winds rush to meet them.
The moon is broken like a mirror.
Its pieces flash in the crown
of the tallest oak.

• When does the wind rush to meet?


• How does the moon look?
• Name the poem and the poet.
• How does the poet describe the moon?

2• The trees inside are moving out into the forest.


The forest that was empty all these days.
where no bird could sit
no insect hide
no sun buries its feet in shadow.

• Where are the trees?


• Why was the forest empty?
• Which 3 things cannot happen in a treeless forest?
• In the first line of the extract the poem means to say that the trees
are trying..

3• I sit inside, doors open to the varanda


writing long letters
in which I scarcely mention the departure
of the forest from the house.
The night is fresh, the whole mom shines
in a sky still open
the smell of leaves and lichen
still reaches like a voice in to the rooms

• Name the poet and the poem.


• Pick out the poetic device used in the stanza.
• The poet is busy writing long _____________________
• The poet does not mention the departure of the forest from the
house because___________

4.All night the roots work


to disengage themselves from the cracks
on the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass
small twigs stiff with exertion
long -cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half -dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.

• Name the poet and the poem.


• What is happening?
• What work do the leaves do?
• The roots work all night to __________________

5• the night is fresh, the whole moon shines


in a sky still open
the smell of leaves and lichen
still reaches like a voice into the rooms,
My head is full of whispers
which tomorrow will be silent.

• What description of the moon does the poet give?


• What is smell compared to?
• Which figure of speech is used to have?
• Name the poet and the poem?

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