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Throwing a tree by thomas hardy rhyme scheme of poetic devices, summary, justification of the title, critical appreciation, main characters of the story, theme and moral of the story​

Answer 1

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‘Throwing a Tree’, New Forest

I

The two executioners stalk along over the knolls,

Bearing two axes with heavy heads shining and wide,

And a long limp two-handled saw toothed for cutting great boles, limp – flexible; boles - trunks

And so they approach the proud tree that bears the death-mark on its side. *

II

Jackets doffed they swing axes and chop away just above ground, doffed – taken off

And the chips fly about and lie white on the moss and fallen leaves; chips – small pieces of

Till a broad deep gash in the bark is hewn all the way round, wood; gash – wound; hewn - cut

And one of them tries to hook upward a rope, which at last he achieves.

III

The saw then begins, till the top of the tall giant shivers:

The shivers are seen to grow greater with each cut than before:

They edge out the saw, tug the rope; but the tree only quivers,

And kneeling and sawing again, they step back to try pulling once more.

IV

Then, lastly, the living mast sways, further sways: with a shout mast – long upright pole

Job and Ike rush aside. Reached the end of its long staying powers

The tree crashes downward: it shakes all its neighbours throughout,

And two hundred years' steady growth has been ended in less than two hours.

* death-mark – a chalked or painted mark to show it is to be felled

To throw a tree is to fell a tree, bring it to the ground. From the very title of the poem, Hardy uses

the technical words and details entailed in the expertise and skill involved in the craft of tree-felling.

Thus the boles are the tree trunks, and the men carry heavy-headed axes and a two-handled saw to

the task. They swing axes, they chop at the tree-trunk just above the ground, they hew (chop or cut

with blows), they hook a rope upwards to pull on one of the high boughs, then they start sawing,

edge the saw out, tug on the rope, and finally the tree crashes downwards. The details are very

precise. The task is a very physical one: the tree fellers take their jackets off and embark on a

series of actions requiring great strength: the verbs show this – ‘swing’, ‘chop’, ‘is hewn’, ‘tries to

hook’, ‘edge’, ‘kneeling and sawing’, ‘step back’, ‘rush.’

But Hardy, although appreciative of the skill of the craftsmen Job and Ike, sees the felling of the

tree as a killing; in the poem’s opening line he describes them as ‘The two executioners’. The

felling is described in emotive terms. The tree’s trunks are ‘great’ and the tree itself is ‘the proud

tree’. Hardy uses the word ‘the death-mark’ for the painted or chalked mark on the tree-trunk it for felling. The mark the fellers make in the bark is a ‘broad deep gash’ with its

connotations of pain and the ‘tall giant shivers’. For all their efforts, ‘the tree only quivers’. It is a

‘living mast’ and only eventually does it ‘reach the end of its long staying powers’ and in a run-on

line ‘crashes downward’. At which point there is a strong marking the end of the great tree’s

life. The sh of ‘crashes’ is repeated in ‘shakes all its neighbours’, as the huge effect of the tree’s

falling is felt all around. And ironically (characteristic of Hardy’s view of so much of life) ‘two

hundred years’ steady growth has been ended in less than two hours.’ The contrast between two

hundred years’ growth and the speed of its ending is stressed through the alliteration and repetition

in ‘two hundred’ and ‘two hours’; in the contrast between ‘growth’ and ‘ended’.

The grandeur of the tree is emphasised; several words underline the violence of man’s actions

against nature. Much earlier, in Jude the Obscure, Hardy had written: ‘He could scarcely bear to

see trees cut down or lopped, from a fancy that it hurt them.’

Literary terms

Very often writers highlight important words. They do this with:

Alliteration – several words starting with the same letter or sound, for example, ‘and black and blind’.

Assonance – same vowel sound in different words, for example, ‘abode’, ‘sloped’.

– a break or pause in the middle of a line of poetry.

Consonance – same consonants in words that contain different vowel sounds, for example, ‘bode’, ‘b

or run-on lines – when there is no punctuation at the end of a line of verse and it runs straight on

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