Question

Describe the Central idea of the poem our casurena tree

Answer 1

Casuarina tree. The tree is a symbol connecting many lives, many memories. In closing, the speaker hopes that when she is gone, there will be more "deathless trees" in addition to this particular tree. Here, again, this can be a literal tree (capable of symbolizing and providing an actual, physical space for memories) or the tree as metaphor for memory. Paralleling the tree metaphor of memory is the poem itself. The poem itself is the speaker's humble attempt to do what the tree has done for her: serve to remember her life and those who she called companions. The poet invokes Wordsworth's "Yew-trees" with the "Borrowdale" reference; this underscores the idea of a poem as a written memory.