Question

O tree, so big and stout and strong
You've lived so very, very, long.
A hundred years or more, I'm told
And yet you're not so very old.
A hundred secrets you could tell
Of children whom you love so well,
Who came and sat beneath your shade
Or underneath your branches played.
A hundred birds have built their nest,
Your leaves have softly kissed their breasts,
Your branches seem to touch the sky,
Yet you were once as small as I.
Some day when I have grown up, too,
I'm coming back to visit you,
And changed though other things will
9.The speaker in the poem is _____________.
(1 Point)
a. a child
b. a gardener
c. an old man
d. a bird
10.The poet believes that the tree knows children’s secrets because ___________.
(1 Point)
a. trees can keep secrets
b. trees can remember things
c. they used to play under it
d. they loved the tree
11.“Yet you were once as small as I”. This line expresses the poet’s sense of __________.
a. envy
b. pride
c. pity
d. surprise
12.In the last stanza the poet hopes that ________________.
a. he will grow up
b. the tree will remain a friend forever
c. he will go away
d. everything will be changed

Answer 1

the speaker has come to know of tree age from

Answer 2

Answer:

This poem is about one sided conversation of a gardener who is taking care of a tree from when it was a plant.

Explanation:

The speaker in the poem is the gardener who is taking care of the tree from the time when it was a little plant.

The poet believes that the tree knows children's secret because they used to play under it and spend time under the shade of it.

"Yet you were once as small as I". This line expresses the poet sense of pity because at that time its branches were not that long to touch the sky.

In the last stanza the poet hopes that the tree will remain a friend forever because for him, trees are best friends. They never complaint or never demand of anything.