Question

Give the summary of the poem "The Heart Of The Tree" by Henry Cuyler Burner.

Answer 1

it describes the innumerable benefits of planting a tree. the shade and the shelter they bring to all the life.it also says that people who plant trees plan for a future,and for people they donot know. 
on another level,planting trees is a symbolic act of goodness-one from which many acts of goodness will sprout.
although written over a century ago, the poem is very relevant in agewhere rapid and reckless development and urbanisation are taking their role in Environment

Answer 2

Answer:

The Heart of the Tree by the American poet and novelist Henry Cuyler Bunner is a fine piece of poetry with a simple theme and a simpler structure. The poem was originally published in 1912.

Planting a tree is always a great work for the mankind. But, the poet has found out new ways to look at the plants and plantation. In his poem The Heart of the Tree he glorifies the act further, shows how a tree helps life on earth and says that it has a direct connection to a nation’s growth.

All the three stanzas of the poem The Heart of the Tree starts with a refrain with the poet asking what the man actually plants who plants a tree. Then he chooses to reply it by himself and shows what a tree means to the humankind and to the nature, thus proving how great that man is.

The rhythm is amazing. The rhyme scheme is ABABBCCAA for each stanza. This is a deviation from the celebrated Spenserian stanza, a nine line stanza with the scheme ABABBCBCC. Though the language is simple, careful wordings makes the poem more expressive and obviously musical and attractive.