Question

summary of the poem a heritage of trees

Answer 1

The poem 'A Heritage Of Trees' highlights the importance of trees. It emphasizes the need to preserve trees for the future generations.

The poet says that he saw someone attack a tree. Such incidents keep taking place often and mutilated, wounded, lacerated, crippled or dead trees lying beside the road from Mysore to Ooty is a common sight. The noble trees which were either planted by some ordinary person or by some important person face such a plight. Trees are for the people to enjoy in the right manner. They should not be destroyed

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Answer 2

This poem A Heritage of Trees is not a rhyming poem. There is no rhyme scheme. The lines are short and there is no metre. No line has a set number of beats. Compare this poem with some of the rhyming poems in this site. Note that in poetry some words can be left out : e.g. Attack a tree today (on) the road from Mysore to Ooty. 

Can you say why the sentences are broken up as they are? You will have to read the poem a number of times to feel how the lines (and the thoughts) flow. 


Words to Know : 

Attenuated : reduced in force or value 

Heritage : what is or may be left to us by someone who has lived before : an inheritance 

Ismail : the son of Abraham, mentioned in the Bible, the Torah and the Koran. The Koran reports that Abraham and Isma'il raised the foundations of the House. The 'house' is the Kaaba in Mecca. 

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