Summary of poem the heart of the tree each paragraph meaning
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The poet in this poetry has been very symbolic in describing the tree. He says that tree is a heart, and whenever you plant a heart, it beams with new life and sprouts like a new plant beaming to life. The poet has used similes and metaphors to describe what a tree is, and how one feels when one plant's a tree himself. The first and the last line together tells about the poem, that the poet thinks that planting a tree is like planting/giving birth to a new nation.
In the first paragraph the poet describes what is it to plant a tree. Not just plantation gives shade, rain and a new tree which grows each time, when another tree dies, he literally mean that a new life is born when a new sapling is planted. It is as if a new nation is on the bloom.
The second paragraph states that one who plants a tree is working towards afforestation, and giving life to a new genre of forests, which adds to the forest heritage value of that place and which shall be something which the upcoming generation shall witness with magic in their eyes.
The third paragraph says that when someone plants a tree, there is a vision in his mind, to build up something, whether be it for their own good to build up something in love for a new house/a new nation, or for the good of the society for a fresher, cleaner and greener environment.
And finally in the last paragraph the poet says that one who plants a tree is in sync with nature and is planning a life growth for the coming generation or mankind. Plantation resembling recharging a new life/a new nation.
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The Heart of the Tree by the American poet and novelist Henry Cuyler Bunner is a fine piece of poetry with a simple theme and a simpler structure. The poem was originally published in 1912.
Planting a tree is always a great work for the mankind. But, the poet has found out new ways to look at the plants and plantation. In his poem The Heart of the Tree he glorifies the act further, shows how a tree helps life on earth and says that it has a direct connection to a nation’s growth.
All the three stanzas of the poem The Heart of the Tree starts with a refrain with the poet asking what the man actually plants who plants a tree. Then he chooses to reply it by himself and shows what a tree means to the humankind and to the nature, thus proving how great that man is.
The rhythm is amazing. The rhyme scheme is ABABBCCAA for each stanza. This is a deviation from the celebrated Spenserian stanza, a nine line stanza with the scheme ABABBCBCC. Though the language is simple, careful wordings makes the poem more expressive and obviously musical and attractive.