Class 10th Eng.CBSE.P-7 The TREES by Adrienne Rich, First Flight Questions and answers Theme summary, Message

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The Trees by Adrienne Rich

A Brief Paraphrase of the Poem "" This is an (un) natural poem that narrates the fight of a population of trees to flee the confines of a greenhouse. The poem demonstrates the inappropriateness of language itself as a greenhouse or container of nature. The speaker is a spectator to the trees' migration, but keeps a distance from participating in the making of something out of the sight. Although the speaker addresses the audience, her own "head is full of whispers"-she's herself an audience. The speaker reaches across the barricade between poem and audience. Adrienne Rich articulates her alertness of the many levels of inner and outer and the blurring of the boundaries between them. The trees, "long-cramped... under the roof" are trying to get out while the speaker remains in the space the trees want to escape. An open door makes the "night" and the "whole moon" and the "sky" available to the speaker; at the same time. The speaker's "head" is another centre, completely entered by "whispers." The poetess is especially intrigued by her image of the trees "like newly discharged patients who are half-dazed".

Words Meanings

1-Bury- cover something

2-Disengage- get free

3-Strain - Make a lot of efforts

4- Twig- small part of branch

5- Exertion - pressure

6- Cramped - shrunk

7- Bough- large branches of trees

8-Scarcely- hardly

9-Lichen- crusty patches on trunks of trees

10- Stumbling - walk unsteadily

11-Flash- shine

12- Whisper - low voice

13-Half- dazed- half sleeping

Question/ Answer

Q1.Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest

Ans. 1. The three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest are – the sitting of a bird on trees, the hiding of insects and the sun burying its feet in the shadow of the forest.

Q2. What picture do these words create in your mind: “….. sun bury its feet in shadow…..1′? What could the poet mean by the sun’s ‘feet’?

Answer:2. The sun’s ‘feet’ refers to the rays of the sun that fall on the earth. When there is no shadow on the ground, because there are no trees, the rays fall directly on the ground. In a forest with trees, the shadow hides the sun rays and it seems that the sun is burying its feet in the sh.adow that fall from the trees.

Q3.Where are the trees in the poem? What do their roots, their leaves and their twigs do?

Ans.3. In the poem, the trees are trapped in the poet’s house. Their roots work all night to disengage themselves from the cracks in the veranda floor. The leaves try very hard to move towards the glass and put a lot of pressure on it so that it breaks, while the small twigs get stiff with exertion.

Q4. What does the poet compare their branches to?

Ans. The poet compares the branches to newly discharged patients of a hospital. The large branches of the trees become cramped due to the roof above them, and when they get free they rush stumblingly to the outside world. While doing so, they look half-shocked like the patients, who wait for a long time to get out of the hospital.

Q5.How does the poet describe the moon:

(a) at the beginning of the third stanza, and

(b) at its end? What causes this change?

Ans. At the beginning of the third stanza, the poet says that the full moon is shining in the open sky in the fresh night. At the end of the stanza, she describes that the moon breaks into pieces like a broken mirror and shines on the heads of the tallest oak trees. As the trees move outside, they cover some of the shine of the moon and it can be seen only in parts. This is why, it seems that the moon has broken into pieces.

Q6.What happens to the house when the trees move out of it?

Ans.When the trees move out of the house, the glasses break and the whispers of the trees vanish, leaving the house silent.

Q7Why do you think the poet does not mention “the departure of the forest from the house” in her letters? (Could it be that we are often silent about important happenings that are so unexpected that they embarrass us? Think about this again when you answer the next set of questions.)

Answer:The poet hardly mentions about “the departure of the forest from the house” in her letters because it is humans, who did not care for nature in the first place. So, maybe, the poet now thinks that nobody would be interested in knowing about the efforts that the trees are making in order to set themselves free. If other men cared about the trees, they would not have destroyed them. It seems that this whole beauty of trees moving back to forests can be seen and felt only by the poet.

Q8.What is the theme of the poem the trees?

Ans.The speaker laments the fact that humans have become so focused on material possessions that they have forgotten the importance of preserving the environment. Conclusion: The main theme of the poem "The Trees" is the relationship between humans and nature, and the need to appreciate and preserve the natural world.

Q9. What is the the message of poem Trees 🌴?

Ans.The message of the poem The Trees is that freedom and equality should be for all the living organisms in the world. Whether we take this poem as nature's poem or a feminist oriented poem, the poet gives a clear message that we should have equal rights.

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