Trees | Class 7 | Questions & Answers | Tulip Series | Summary |

 Trees | Class 7 | Questions & Answers | Tulip Series | Summary |

INTRODUCTION

The poem “Trees” has been written by Joyce Kilmer. In this poem the poet wants us to understand the ability and beauty of a tree. It tells us how the tree is able to survive with all natural resources and how it uses the God‟s blessings for its survival. The tree makes itself and the world so beautiful that nothing can be compared with a tree.

SUMMARY

In this poem, the poet comes up with a lovely idea of personifying a person‟s actions to an inanimate object, tree. A tree gets its water from nourishment and survival from the earth‟s sweet flowing breast. Here hungry mouth of a tree represents the roots clinging on to the ground while earth‟s sweet flowing breast means the water that nourishes the life of a tree. In nature we see a mother feeds its young ones with its breast milk. This is how a tree is compared (personified) with a mother and its child. A tree growing upward seems to reach God to pray for His blessings, just as people from all around the world though belonging to different races, cultures, beliefs praise, worship and thank their God for His bountiful blessings. Trees also provide shade and shelter to birds and other creatures. In the end the poet concludes by saying that no matter what man does, no poem or work of art will be lovelier that what God has already created on the earth.

  Questions & Answers

Q. No 1. What does the poet compare a tree, with?

Ans. The poet  compares a tree with a poem.

Q. No 2. What does the tree look at all day?

Ans. The tree looks at God all day.

Q. No 3. How does the tree pray?

Ans. The tree lifts her leafy arms to pray.

Q. No 4. What does a tree wear in summer?

Ans. The tree wears a nest of robins in summer.

Language Work 

A. Write True (T) or False (F):

 a. The poet shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. True 

 b. Poems are not made by fools like the poet. False 

c. Only God can make a tree. True 

d. The tree does like rain. False 

e. The tree looks at God all day. True

 B. Pick out the rhyming words from the poem: 

Ans. See-tree, day-pray, wear-hair, lain-rain etc.