Question

please tell me short summary of poem on killing a tree.

Answer 1

“On Killing a Tree” is a sensitive poem. 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. When a tree is cut, the sap flows out just like a wounded man bleeds. Once the wound heals, new branches and tiny leaves grow from there which grow into trees.
In order to destroy a tree, it has to be uprooted. The roots which are white in colour and are damp due to the moisture that they get from the soil are hidden in a pit in the Earth. These roots are the most sensitive part of the tree as they bind it to the earth. In order to kill the tree, these roots have to be detached from the soil.
Once the roots are detached, the tree starts dying, It withers, dries up with the action of heat and wind, twists, hardens and finally, dies.

Answer 2

Actually, this poem looks rather controversial.

From what I have revised, the author, Gieve Patel, gives us an advice, in the poem, to kill a tree properly. He also gives some additional info about it and gives many useless methods to kill a tree, in order to make us to realize that there's no point in doing these methods. He explains that the root is to pulled out from the soil, along with the tree, and should be left to withering.

Actually, when people deforest vegetative regions, they just cut the tree's stem and leave its roots. I think the poet says that you must uproot the tree, so that new ones may be grown in its place, thus, making it more easy for the 'afforesters'( people who afforest a region ).

Also , you can derive another conclusion : Whatever you do, do it properly.

[ I think that's the overall message]

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