Question

what is the impact of beginning the poem with a question? What is the figure of speech used here?(1st stanza of the poem'The heart of the tree')

Answer 1

Henry Cuyler Bunner was an American novelist, journalist and poet who has written feelingly about the benefits of planting a tree.His poem describes the innumerable benefits of trees and the shade and shelter they bring to our life.He claims that people who plant trees plan for s future and for people they don't know.

On another level planting a tree id a symbolic act of goodness one from which many other acts of goodness will sprout.
Although written over a century ago,the poem is very relevant in an age where rapid and reckless development and urbanisation are taking their troll on the Emvironment.

Answer 2

Answer:

In this poem the author used technique called hypophora. In this author raising a question and then he himself providing on answer to that question.

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