alliteration in the poem felling of the banyan tree by dilip chitre
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My father told the tenants to leaveWho lived on the houses surrounding our house on the hillOne by one the structures were demolishedOnly our own house remained and the treesTrees are sacred my grandmother used to sayFelling them is a crime but he massacred them allThe sheoga, the oudumber, the neem were all cut downBut the huge banyan tree stood like a problemWhose roots lay deeper than all our livesMy father ordered it to be removedThe banyan tree was three times as tall as our houseIts trunk had a circumference of fifty feetIts scraggy aerial roots fell to the groundFrom thirty feet or more so first they cut the branchesSawing them off for seven days and the heap was hugeInsects and birds began to leave the treeAnd then they came to its massive trunkFifty men with axes chopped and choppedThe great tree revealed its rings of two hundred yearsWe watched in terror and fascination this slaughterAs a raw mythology revealed to us its ageSoon afterwards we left Baroda for BombayWhere there are no trees except the one
Which grows and seethes in one’s dreams, its aerial roots
Looking for the ground to strike.The Felling of The Banyan Tree as a poem is symbolical, mythical and eco-centric as it hides in many ashred of thought and thinking from different points of view, rampant urbanization, flat construction,road making, renovation of older housing complex, money making and supply of wooden logs to sawmills. From the natural points of view, the older sturdy trees with their mighty growth not only give coolshade but add to greenery and oxygen level.The Felling of The Banyan Tree is one of the famous poems written by Dilip Chitre who is but a Marathiwriter of repute and a poet of English too as has written quite a few in English and has rendered into tooapart from being a little magazine man and a translator and an anthologist. A Marathi critic and poet,he is well up in English as English is his subject of study and has taught it too. To talk about him is to talkabout his An anthology of Marathi Poems: 1945-65 (1967), Ambulance Ride (1972), Travelling in a Cage(1980); to talk about him is to talk about his Tukaram. To talk about him is to talk about Father TravellingHome and The Felling of A Banyan Tree. Such is the impact of his poetry. So social, so amicable andreflective is he in his poetry.
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