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The Trees is a short symbolic poem that focuses on the movement of trees that are initially indoors but seeking to escape to freedom in the forest. The trees represent nature but also the nature of being - womanhood in particular. What makes this poem unusual is the speaker's attitude towards the trees.
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Adrienne Rich and The Trees
The Trees is a short symbolic poem that focuses on the movement of trees that are initially indoors but seeking to escape to freedom in the forest. The trees represent nature but also the nature of being - womanhood in particular.
What makes this poem unusual is the speaker's attitude towards the trees. In the first two stanzas there is a definite attachment as the speaker objectively describes the escape of the trees to their new environment.
In the last two stanzas the speaker, now a first person 'I', seems to want to ignore this profound shifting of the trees but paradoxically by mentioning her own aloofness brings the whole situation into sharper focus.
The use of simile is clear as the branches of the trees are seen like newly discharged patients heading for the clinic doors. This portrayal of the trees as people in need of medical help means the poem cannot be taken literally.
The Trees then is an extended metaphor - the trees are indeed people, specifically females, females who are in need of healing or having been healed, are now ready for their true purpose, renewing the empty forest.
Written in 1963 and published in her book Necessities of Life, 1966, this poem appeared at an important point in Adrienne Rich's development as a poet and cultural figurehead.
In the same year she moved to New York with her family and started to teach, as well as throw herself into political activism, particularly anti-war protests. Years later she became an ardent feminist and wrote many poems and essays reflecting her strong political views and ideas.
The Trees is influenced by Robert Frost's poem Birches yet has its own distinct quiet revolution going on.
The Trees
The trees inside are moving out into the forest,
the forest that was empty all these days
where no bird could sit
no insect hide
no sun bury its feet in shadow
the forest that was empty all these nights
will be full of trees by morning.
All night the roots work
to disengage themselves from the cracks
in the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass
small twigs stiff with exertion
long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.
I sit inside, doors open to the veranda
writing long letters
in which I scarcely mention the departure
of the forest from the house.
The night is fresh, the whole moon shines
in a sky still open
the smell of leaves and lichen
still reaches like a voice into the rooms.
My head is full of whispers
which tomorrow will be silent.
Listen. The glass is breaking.
The trees are stumbling forward
into the night. Winds rush to meet them.
The moon is broken like a mirror,
its pieces flash now in the crown
of the tallest oak
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Adrienne Rich and The Trees
The Trees is a short symbolic poem that focuses on the movement of trees that are initially indoors but seeking to escape to freedom in the forest. The trees represent nature but also the nature of being - womanhood in particular.
What makes this poem unusual is the speaker's attitude towards the trees. In the first two stanzas there is a definite attachment as the speaker objectively describes the escape of the trees to their new environment.
In the last two stanzas the speaker, now a first person 'I', seems to want to ignore this profound shifting of the trees but paradoxically by mentioning her own aloofness brings the whole situation into sharper focus.
The use of simile is clear as the branches of the trees are seen like newly discharged patients heading for the clinic doors. This portrayal of the trees as people in need of medical help means the poem cannot be taken literally.
The Trees then is an extended metaphor - the trees are indeed people, specifically females, females who are in need of healing or having been healed, are now ready for their true purpose, renewing the empty forest.
Written in 1963 and published in her book Necessities of Life, 1966, this poem appeared at an important point in Adrienne Rich's development as a poet and cultural figurehead.
In the same year she moved to New York with her family and started to teach, as well as throw herself into political activism, particularly anti-war protests. Years later she became an ardent feminist and wrote many poems and essays reflecting her strong political views and ideas.
The Trees is influenced by Robert Frost's poem Birches yet has its own distinct quiet revolution going on.
The Trees
The trees inside are moving out into the forest,
the forest that was empty all these days
where no bird could sit
no insect hide
no sun bury its feet in shadow
the forest that was empty all these nights
will be full of trees by morning.
All night the roots work
to disengage themselves from the cracks
in the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass
small twigs stiff with exertion
long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.
I sit inside, doors open to the veranda
writing long letters
in which I scarcely mention the departure
of the forest from the house.
The night is fresh, the whole moon shines
in a sky still open
the smell of leaves and lichen
still reaches like a voice into the rooms.
My head is full of whispers
which tomorrow will be silent.
Listen. The glass is breaking.
The trees are stumbling forward
into the night. Winds rush to meet them.
The moon is broken like a mirror,
its pieces flash now in the crown
of the tallest oak
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