Question

Is the poet really trying to teach us to kill a tree

Answer 1

Answer:

The poet persuades the reader not to destroy trees and equates it with “killing” a human being. He says that a plant takes sunlight, water, air and nutrients from the soil to gradually become a huge tree. It develops a strong trunk and gets numerous leaves. Merely cutting the trunk of the tree does not kill it.

Answer 2

Answer:

the poet persuades the reader not to destroy tree which and equates it with killing a human being.