Question

(i)
What did the ‘old woman' stand for?
(ii) What change took place in the poet when he came out of the forest?​

Answer 1

Answer:

(i) The old woman is the symbol of Nature. Her old age and 'all knobbly stick and rag' suggest the degradation of nature.

(ii) The three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest are the sitting of a bird on trees, the hiding of insects and the sun burying its feet in the shadow of the forest.