Question

b. How important was the tree to the speaker? How do we know this? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

The tree is so ancient that the passage of a few decades had scarcely altered it at all, while the people who ran around it are completely changed. Because it is a physical symbol of her childhood, the speaker has often recalled it to mind wherever she is in the world

Answer 2

Answer:

This is an excellent question, but a challenging one. There are apparently many different purposes for the speaker to be repeating some of the phrases and lines in the poem.

First of all, this poem has no rhymes and no meter. It is arranged in stanzas and looks like a lyric poem, but there is nothing lyrical about it, and the only "poetic" elements are the repetitions of certain phrases and lines, as is done,...