refrence to the poem "The heart of the tree" by Henry cuyler bunner
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Passage - 1
(i)The poet does not put this question to anybody in particular.It is a rhetorical question to draw the reader's attention to the importance of planting trees. He himself answers the question .According to the extract the man who plants a tree plants 'a friend of sun and sky, and home for birds and animals near heaven. '
(ii) A tree is a friend of the sun and the sky. The sun and the sky help a tree to grow up and spread its branches. The tree in turn keeps the air clean. A tree flutters like a flag in the breeze, and makes the breeze cool and fresh. The tree is beautiful, tall like a tower. A tree is a home for birds and animals. They make their nests high up in the sky.
(iii) Trees need the light Of the sun to make their food by the process of photosynthesis. It needs sky (space) to spread its branches. Trees clean and purify the air, and cool the breezes. In this way trees, sun and sky help each other like friends.
(iv) A tree grows. Its trunk looks the shaft of a flag. The tree is beautiful and compared to the shaft Of beauty.
(v)Beginning the poem with a question draws reader's attention to an important topic: 'Why we
Passage - 2
(i) The soft sweet song mother bird sings to her chicks in evening is described as mother-croon of birds. The song is sung in the quiet, and happy twilight when the mother birds returns to her little ones for the night. It is a sort of lullaby.
(ii) Twilight is the faint light at the end of the day when the sun goes down. It is a happy twilight because mother bird has returned to her nest and she is with her chicks. It is like a happy home.
(iii)Treble is high tone in music, In the evening there is peace and harmony in nature. The treble note of the mother bird is like pleasant music to the quiet atmosphere.
(iv) Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by another name associated with that thing or concept. In this poem a tree is called by various names associated with it. For example a tree is called 'the flag of breezes free' and 'a shaft of beauty towering high'.
(v)A tree provides cool shade. A tree takes up
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