Question

what has the poet compared with leprous hide from poem on killing a tree

Answer 1

The poet had compared the discolored and twisted skin of a person grieving from leprosy with leprous hide from the poem “On Killing a Tree.”

In the poem “On killing a tree” the poet Gieve Patel uses many figures of speech like personification and metaphor. The poet personifies the act of killing a tree to that of killing a human. Wounding the tree with the knife is personified as the wounds of humans. He tries to show the dilemma of taking harsh decisions in life. Here he uses metaphor to build a comparison between a tree's grieve and that of the humans.