CLASS 10
THE TREES
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Question
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Personification conveys how their death and rebirth is only an illusion
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rejuvenation
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Metaphor conveys how their death and rebirth is only an illusion
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A sence of everything is wrong
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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: -Simile. The speaker uses a simile to compare the newly budding trees to “something almost being said"-they’re like a word on the tip of the tongue. This suggests that the leaves haven’t yet fully budded, infusing the poem’s opening with a sense of anticipation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Note the way Larkin uses human activities throughout this poem, to personify the trees: they come into leaf like something ‘almost being said’; their age is ‘written down’ in their rings of grain; the trees ‘seem to say’ that last year is in the past, so the trees begin ‘afresh, afresh, afresh’.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the poem, the poet expresses his attitudes of pessimism and envy which then changes to admiration for the trees. The themes of immortality, age and renewal are explored through imagery, metaphor, and repetition which conveys Larkin’s attitudes towards the immortality of the trees.