CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

THE TREES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What does it show?’The recent buds relax and spread’
A
Nature
B
Death
C
A sence of rebirth
D
Pleasant representation of spring’s approach by referring to the process of plants growing
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Trees is one of Larkin’s most famous and best-loved poems. In it, the poet equates the renewal of the seasons with death and pain: “Their greenness is a kind of grief”, he writes. But while it is regularly called one of the greatest poems about Spring, Larkin’s own feelings about The Trees were more ambivalent.

Detailed explanation-2: -This poem portrays how humans have harmed nature for their selfish needs. The poem, ‘The Trees’ written by Adrienne Rich is about decorative pants. These plants are grown within the four walls and in no way, they can help the birds and insects. Birds cannot sit on the branches and the insects cannot hide in them.

Detailed explanation-3: -Summary of the Poem. The Heart of the Tree is a poem in which Henry Cuyler Bunner narrates the importance of trees and his love for nature. He uses this poem to outline the favors trees do for the human kind and their importance in the world’s sustenance. It is a poem that is extremely relevant to today’s world.

Detailed explanation-4: -"Trees” is a poem of twelve lines in strict iambic tetrameter. The eleventh, or penultimate, line inverts the first foot, so that it contains the same number of syllables, but the first two are a trochee. The poem’s rhyme scheme is rhyming couplets rendered aa bb cc dd ee aa.

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