Question

summary of the poem"In killing a tree"

Answer 1

It is not easy to Kill deep rooted tree. It takes much time to kill it. A tree is too strong to be killed by a simple attack of a knife. It has grown slowly consuming the earth. Feeding upon its crust, absorbing years of sunlight. The strength it has stored through a long period of hard work and patience, cannot be destroyed in one go.
When a tree is chopped, the barks bleed but soon they heal up and expand again to their former size. If one wants to kill a tree, it has to be pulled out of the anchoring earth. It's most sensitive part, i.e. the root, has to be exposed to the sun and the air. Once it is done, the tree is killed.

Answer 2

Answer:

In his poem ‘On Killing a Tree’, Gieve Patel gives a graphic description of the total destruction of a tree. Man realises that neither a simple jab of the knife nor hacking and chopping can kill a tree. It is hard to kill a tree. In order to kill a tree, it has to be uprooted. So the tree is roped, tied and pulled out from the roots. It is now cut off from the earth. Finally, in the presence of sun and air, the roots pass through the processes of scorching, choking, drying, hardening, twisting, withering. In this way, the killing of a tree is complete. This expression highlights man’s satisfaction in destroying nature. Ironically it shows how man glorifies his cruelty.