Question

in the poem Throwing a tree

Who are the executioners
Why are they called so

Answer 1

Who are the executioners?
▶Job and Ike are the executioners.

Why they are called so?
▶In the poem the poet calls Job and Ike as executioners because executioners are the people who carry out the death sentence. As, in the poem they are cutting the tree. So, they can be told as executioners.

Answer 2

Job and Nike are termed as the executioners .

They were called so because they were responsible for executing tree .

Actually they had cut a 200 year tree with an axe.

A tree is also a living thing .

Hence this was an execution .

Thus Job and Nike were called as executioners .