Question

a sea of Foliage full explanation​

Answer 1

The meaning of “sea” of foliage is that Tom Dutt compares the greenery surrounding her family garden with the sea. But in the poet's garden there is mixture of plants, colours and textures which could be a sea of foliage around her garden which is spectacular, greenery surrounding her family.

Answer 2

Explanation:

A sea of foliage girds our garden round,

But not a sea of dull unvaried green,

Sharp contrasts of all colors here are seen;

The light-green graceful tamarinds abound

Amid the mango clumps of green profound,

And palms arise, like pillars gray, between;

And o'er the quiet pools the seemuls lean,

Red-red, and startling like a trumpet's sound.

But nothing can be lovelier than the ranges

Of bamboos to the eastward, when the moon

Looks through their gaps, and the white lotus changes

Into a cup of silver. One might swoon

Drunken with beauty then, or gaze and gaze

On a primeval Eden, in amaze.