Question

Summary of the heart of the tree??

Answer 1

The heart is the most important organ of the human body this poem was narrated in order to compare the tree with a heart and emphasize the importance of the trees. The heart is responsible for pumping the blood int he body and giving the nutrients to the body, so the tree has the same qualities as the heart and which are as important as the heart is. As trees gives oxygen to the living things, they cause rainfall, and according to the poet the person who plants trees, plants seeds is just like giving life and is maintaining human life by doing this and it is about the quality of the trees, it can be concluded that title is appropriate for the poem and how important trees are for the human survival.

Answer 2

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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.