CLASS 10
THE TREES
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Question
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Uses personification to show the trees are hard to destroy
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Rejuvenation
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Strength
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Uses metaphor to show the trees are hard to destroy
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Detailed explanation-1: -The poet has used trees as a metaphor to explain how humans have destroyed the forest. The poet feels that the empty forest will be full by morning with the trees moving. The second stanza tells how the trees work throughout the night to achieve their freedom mission.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the third stanza, Larkin reflects that, despite this fact that the trees are as mortal as we are, the trees – described grandly as ‘unresting castles’ – go on, their leaves growing back full each year.
Detailed explanation-3: -In this poem there is comparison between the trees and human beings, therefore it is extended metaphor.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.