Question

what is the impact of beginning the poem with a question

Answer 1

A poem with a beginning as a question has a lot of impacts. As soon as we read the question, we start to think about the question, what it means to us, why the author has given it, and what use it has to others. We also get a brief idea of what the poet is trying to say through his or her poem. Thus, poems with question beginnings have a lot of impact on the person who reads. it. 

Answer 2

Answer:

When the poet begins the poem with a question, as an immediate effect it leaves the readers pondering on what might be the answer. It makes us curious to know the perspective from which the poet sees it.

In our present poem, ‘The Heart of the Tree’, the question ‘What does he do who plants a tree?’ is rather simple and common. We all know that the man who plants a tree also helps other people and animals live on earth. But we get interested to find out something new that the poet might bring to the regular argument. And Bunner does so by arguing that the man ‘plants a friend of the sun and sky’, ‘plants a flag of breezes free’ and so on. This new perspective of thought is what we are amazed at. And the poet is successful in doing so by opening the poem with a question.

The figure of speech used here is rhetorical question.