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Poem Explanations
In this poem, the poet expresses his love for nature and praises the
healing power of rain, especially when heard from a cosy bed in a
lovely cottage. The poet is thrilled when he observes the starry sky
being overcast by rain bearing clouds, but he does not like the
darkness that surrounds all around. It is something like mourning the
melancholic spirt of indescribable sadness.
Soon it starts raining to compensate it with the spirit of peace
for the lonely night to pass.
The poet feels immense pleasure to lie in his cottage chamber
bed with his head pressed against a soft pillow and listening to the
sound of raindrops falling on the roof making a tinkling sound, which
produces an echo in the heart of the poet.
Thee sounds arouse a thousand imaginations in the poet’s busy
mind. The pattering sound of the raindrops also revives a thousand
memories of his childhood. One of his memories if related to his dear
mother who is no longer in this world. The poet remembers how she
used to give a lovely look at her dear children when she put them to
sleep and wished them to meet again the next morning.
The poet, while listening to the repetitive rhythms of the
raindrops falling on the roof of his cottage, can feel the presence of
his mother around him. He visualizes her affectionate look bending
over him. Thus, he presents rain as a bridging force between his
present and his past.
On killing a Tree
It is written by an Indian poet, painter and a practising physician
based in Mumbai. Patel belongs to a group of writers who have
subscribed themselves to the ‘Green Movement’ that is involved in
an effort to protect the environment. His poem portrays deep
concern for nature and man’s cruelty towards in. It is a sensitive
poem which persuades the leader to not destroy them and equates it
to killing a human being. He states that a plant takes sunlight, water,
air, nutrients to grow into a tree and gets numerous leaves. Merely
cutting the trunk of the tree does not kill it. When a tree is cut, a sap
flows out like a wounded man bleeds. Once the wounds heal, new
branches and tiny leaves grow from there which grow into new
trees. In order to kill a tree, it has to be uprooted. The roots are
white in colour and are damp to the moisture they get from the soil.
These roots are the most sensitive part of the tree and are hidden in
a sit in the earth. They bind the trees to the earth. The roots have to
be detached from the soil to kill it. Once the roots are detached, the
tree starts dying. It withers away, dries up with the action of heat
and wind, it twists, hardens and finally dies.
# No rhyme scheme
# Metaphors- leprous hide, bleeding bark
# Alliteration- bleeding bark, white and wet
# Repetition- pulled out