Explain : the poet describes the cherry as jewelled in the sun
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Ruskin Bond, in the poem “ The Cherry Tree” has proven his proven his worth as a nature poet. He describes various aspects of the cherry tree, its surroundings and the weather. Some examples of this beautiful imagery are:
1. “It was very small, five months child,
Lost in the tall grass running wild”.
These lines accurately describe the status of the cherry plant as compared to its surroundings. So, while some plants, like the cherry plant in its younger days are small, there are other plants, like the grass which are tall. This shows the variety in nature.
2.”The young tree struggle, upward thrust
Its arms in a fresh fierce lust
For light and air and sun.”
Here,the tree’s growth is compared to a child’s growth. The poet depicts the tree as a young growing child, who is stretching its arms to reach out to something it wants. There is movement even in a tree that is growing in one spot.
3. “Time and the rain
Made a miracle from green growing pain…….”
Even though there was not much that the poet could do for the tree, over time, nature itself nourished the tree with rain. And just as children often have growing pains when they are gaining height, the tree too experienced these pains,signifying that it was growing as well.
4. .”..a cherry tree at my door.
Six feet high my own dark cherry,”
The poet is thrilled to see the cherry tree near his door. It is almost like being welcomed home by a family member who has stood guard while the poet was away. The tree has now grown to an impressive height.
5. "..a berry.
Ripended and jeweled in the sun,”
The single berry is compared to a gemstone, rather than just a fruit. The description shows exactly what the value of the fruit is for the poet.
6. "Pink, fragile, quick to fall
At the merest breath, the sleepiest breeze.”
The poet describes just how delicate the cherry blossoms are. They fall even when the mildest of breeze blows, which is the gentlest type of breeze that can make anyone fall asleep.
7. “Looking up through leaves at the blue
Blind sky”
This imagery of the poet lying on the ground and peeking at the sky through the leaves is simple yet beautiful. Most of us have looked upwards at the sky during the day or night and can connect with the pleasure it gives the poet.
Other examples of nature imagery are of the finches that “flitted”, the bees that “in an ecstasy drank” the nectar , the sun that "sank swiftly", the moon-moths and the song of the crickets.
The poet has touched upon various seasons in the course of one poem. Also, the imagery appeals to our senses.
Touch- the fragility of the flowers
Taste- of nectar
Sight- the new shoots growing upwards, the six feet high tree
This intensifies the effect of imagery and magnifies the beauty of nature manifold.
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