write a paragraph about the poem "Our Casuarina tree" .
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The poem "Our Casuarina Tree" is from Dutt's Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882). It is one of Dutt's most famous poems, and it describes a tree near the speaker's home that she associates heavily with memories of her childhood and her siblings that have since died, "Who now in blessed sleep, for aye, repose." The word "our" in the title hints at this significance—it is not just an ordinary tree for the poet, but rather a part of her life and an integral part of her childhood that she shared with her siblings.
The poem's opening lines describe the grandeur of the Casuarina in minute detail, standing erect and wearing the "scarf" of the "creeper" that clutches it like "a huge python." The tree is a source of life, filled with "bird[s] and bee[s]," though the children who used to play under its branches are long gone. This liveliness that surrounds the tree is further detailed in the second stanza, which tells of a "baboon," "kokilas," and "cows" in its vicinity.
Still, in the third stanza, the speaker tells us explicitly that it is "not because of its magnificence / [that] Dear is the Casuarina to my soul"—rather, it is because of her memories of her departed siblings. At the thought of their deaths and their past memories, even the tree seems to "lament" and ushers forth "an eerie speech." In the fourth stanza, the speaker recalls various foreign shores (namely, "France or Italy") where she heard noise similar to the tree's mournful sighs, and recalled the tree and her "own loved native clime."
As the poem closes, the speaker meditates on the "deathless trees" in "Borrowdale" that carry the same grim weight as those in William Wordsworth's poem on yew-trees, which she quotes: "Fear, trembling Hope, and Death, the skeleton, / And Time the shadow." By contrast, the speaker tells us, she yearns to return to the Casuarina tree of her youth, which she hopes will be saved "from Oblivion's curse."