(i) How does the poet describe the moon: (a) at the beginning of the third stanza, and (b) at its end? What causes this change? (ii) What happens to the house when the trees move out of it? (iii) Why do you think the poet does not mention “the departure of the forest from the house” in her letters? (Could it be that we are often silent about important happenings that are so unexpected that they embarrass us? Think about this again when you answer the next set of questions)
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The above question has been given from the poem 'The Trees'.
i)At the third stanza's beginning, the moon was shining as a whole in the sky. It was a fresh night, and the moon looked beautiful according to the poet.
But at the end of third stanza, the moon seem to be broken into pieces. This scenario was observed by the poet when the trees of her house made their way from home to outside. As, they moved out their branches seem to have divided the moon into many pieces and the moon seemed like a shattered mirror.
ii)As the tress grew in size, they moved out of the house, leaving the house treeless and the glass broken. The odor of lichens and leaves still reached every corner of the house. It was more like the tress have departed in hope to reach their natural habitat which is forest.
iii)The trees in the poem were close to the poet. She did not want them to leave the house and go. The poet had used the trees to decorate the house. Although she knew this would happen, but still she did not want the world to know about the sudden departure of the trees.