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The Old Tree

'Old tree, how low you seem to stoop,
How much your trunk is bent;
Why don't you make a rise, and grow
Up straight, as you were meant? '
And then the young boy thought he heard
The old tree sigh, 'Too late!
When I was young it was the time
To come and bend me straight.
'They should have bound me to a prop,
And made me straight and fast;
A child like you could bend me then,
But now my time is past.
' Don't think you may be bad in youth ,
And one day change your plan ;
Just what you grow up from child ,
You well be has a man '.

Question 1 : Do you think the title of the poem is suitable? What are the title would suggest for the poem? Why?
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Answer 1

Answer:

Yes, I think the title of the poem is suitable as the tree is constantly referred to as "old tree". Furthermore, the "trunk is bent" and the tree "stoops". If I had to name it something else, I would name it 'strange tree' as the tree isn't like any ordinary tree.