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Trees -By Joyce Kilmer

Trees

                           -By Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

Bengali Translation

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(a)Answer the following questions:                                                                                                                              

a) What is lovelier to the poet- a poem or a tree?

b) What does a tree do by lifting leafy arms?

c) What is the summer wear of a tree?

(b)How many stanzas are there in the poem?                                                                                                                

(c) Write the rhyming words in the following table.     

(d) Write the theme or summary of the poem.                                                                                            

see ————
————— prest
—————– day
wear ————
lain ————-
—————- me

 

Answer:

(a)According to the poet, a tree is lovelier than a poem.

(b) A tree looks at God all day and lifts her leafy arms to pray.

(c) A nest of robins is the summer wear of a tree.

(b) There are three (3) stanzas in the poem

(c)

see tree
Breast prest
Pray day
wear Hair
lain Rain
Tree me

(d) “Trees” is a poem by Joyce Kilmer written in 1913. By far Kilmer’s most popular work, the speaker insists that no poem can ever be as “lovely as a tree.” In other words, human art invariably fails to match the beauty and majesty of nature. This is because nature was created by God. The best poetry can do, it seems, is to acknowledge its own failure while praising the wonder of God’s creation.