Question

What is the message of the poem ‘Prayer of the Woods’? *​

Answer 1

Answer:

In the poem 'The Prayer of the Woods' a tree speaks to the travellers who are starting their journey through the forest. It tells them how useful the trees are to the human beings. They are used by human beings at home and at work. They are useful in heat and cold.

Answer 2

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“The Prayer of the Woods” begins by telling us how useful trees are for humanity. They provide building materials for human beings. At home as well as at work, trees come to our use. They help us in building our houses, as well as the doors to those houses. They also help us in building the tools with which we earn our livelihood. They provide us with food and even help in building the table on which that food is kept. Trees provide us with the refreshment of all sorts. They provide shade on a hot day, and the juices of their fruits when we are dying of thirst. If we are cold, we burn wood to keep warm. We need wood to survive at every stage of our lives. As babies, we lie in cradles made of wood. In death, we lie in coffins made of wood. In between these two times, we lie in our beds that are also made of wood. If we need to travel from here to there, we use boats made of wood. Trees also provide us with flowers. Especially in a country like India, flowers are an essential part of all religious ceremonies. All over the earth, flowers are used to adorn and beautify our houses.

Listing down all these ways in which trees are an integral ingredient in making the human life efficient may seem to be counter-productive as far as the message of this poem is concerned. However, by showing us how trees dedicate their entire lives to us human beings, the tree is successful in gaining our love and sympathy. That is why when it appeals to us not to cut it down, not only do we agree that it would be wrong to do so but we also feel guilty that members of the human race have subjected the noble trees to such a cruel fate before. Hence, the message of this poem is conveyed indirectly, but it is certainly conveyed in a convincing manner.