Question

why does the poet call the tree familiar​

Answer 1

*The poet call the tree familiar​*

(1). The poet call the trees familiar as the human being would empathize with them when they are cut and they may seem them to be alive.

(2). In the poem The Proud Tree which is written by the poet Martin Kloess, personification is used such as 'the proud trees that bears the death-mark on its side'.