how does the poem if was tree depict the discrimination faced by man is a society based on caste
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The poem, 'The Trees', by Adrienne Rich, provides us an intimate description of the sufferings faced by trees.
The trees for long have been enclosed in greenhouse conservatories, far, far away from their original habitat of the forest.
The poem speaks of the difficult and protracted struggle of the trees to break from their 'prison'.
The poetess ,Adrienne Rich, is a well-known feminist and environmentalist.
She has compared the trees in the poem to the oppression faced by certain people in a caste-based society.
Like the trees, the oppressed castes of the society have been kept in isolation and confinement, from both education and participation in public life.
They are like newly-discharged patients, half-dazed, moving towards the clinic doors. Here, the doors represent the path to freedom and equality.
These 2 aspects are for the time being, strange to the oppressed, for never in their lives, have they had such an opportunity to live their lives with self-respect and dignity.
Towards the end of the poem, Rich envisions a brighter future. She depicts the breaking of the doors of years of discrimination and emergence of the downtrodden from their confined spaces.
She hopes that all the marginalised people find a more respectable place in our society and are integrated into the mainstream so that they can finally overcome centuries and millenia of the injustices of the caste system.
NOTE : The same question can be asked as an 8 - mark question based on the oppression of women and their fightback too.
Hope it helps!!!