Question

what is the meaning of 'bleeding bark'
from the poem "On killing a tree "​

Answer 1

Answer:

Bleeding bark' means the twigs which are cut mercilessly. They leave a liquid substance. ... In the same way the liquid substance comes out from the branch of a tree. The human beings' axe makes it bleed. The poet says “No” in the beginning of the third stanza.

Answer 2

Answer:

'Bleeding bark' refers to the area on the tree trunk where it has been hit with the axe, It bleeds because the wood cutter has wounded the tree by cutting and chopping it. The area is oozing sap.Just like Humans, when we also get cut, we bleed, the author wants to say that trees also get hurt when they get cut.

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