Therefore O foam would consecrate a lay. The poet sees the tree in her own be loved native land. Under whose awful branches lingered pale. The yew tree in Borrowdale is compared to the casuarina tree. Borrowdale is a valley in England. Explain the following lines with reference to the context. Comment : The poet expresses her love to the casuarina tree. Explanation: The poet strongly believes that nature communicates with human beings.
The poet could communicate with the tree even when she was in a far-off land as she could hear the tree lamenting her absence. Comment : The poet personifies the tree and believes that it laments over her absence.
Who now in blessed sleep for aye repose,. Explanation: The poet sanctifies the tree. But they are not alive. He praises the tree that it is so loveable to both living and dead. Comment : The poet says that the tree is so dear to eve ryone. Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extracts given below and write down the answer in the space given below.
The first one is done for you. The giant wears the scarf , and flowers are hung Like the sea breaking on a shingle -beach? Describing the vine in animal terms as a python. This is used to illustrate movement, making the tree seem more actively alive and also implying movement.
This is a subtle indication of the process of life. Answer each of the following questions in a paragraph of — words.
Describe the reminiscences of the poet, when she sees the casuarina tree. Poem : Our Casuarina Tree. Poet : Toru Dutt. Theme : Reminiscences of the poetss. The casuarina tree is tall and strong, with a creeper winding around it like a python. The tree stands like a giant with a colourful scarf of flowers. Birds surround the garden during day time. The sweet song of the birds is heard at night. The poet is delighted to see the casuarina tree through her casement. The poet spends her winter watching the baboon sitting on top of the tree.
Its offspring leaps and plays among the boughs of the tree. The cows are grazing and the water lilies are springing in the pond. The poetess could communicate with the tree even when. She could hear the tree laments in her absence. She immortalizes the tree through her poem like the poet Wordsworth who sanctified the yew tree of Borrowdale valley in his poem. She expresses her wish that the tree should be remembered out of love and not just because it cannot be forgotten.
How does nature communicate with the poet? Theme : Nature communicates with the poet. She strongly believes that nature communicates with human beings. The poet could communicate with the tree even when she was in a far-off land as she could hear the tree lamenting over her absence. The poet immortalizes the tree. Theme : The poet immortalizes the tree.
The poetess could communicate with the tree even when she was in a far-off land. She could hear the tree lamenting her absence. She loves them above all. For their sake, she immortalizes the tree through this poem like the poet Wordsworth who sanctified the yew tree of Borrowdale valley in his poem. Appearance of the tree. Nature and the tree. Reminiscences of the poet. Immortalize the tree Conclusion. Tom Dutt was a Bengali poet. In this poem the nostalgic memories of her childhood days are shared by her picturesquely.
Appearance of the tree:. The Casuarina tree is tall and strong. A creeper is winding around it like a python.
Nature and the tree:. The cows are grazing and the water lilies are springing in the pond like snow. Reminiscences of the poet:. The poet could communicate with the tree even when she was in a far-off land. She could hear the tree laments over her absence. Immortalize the tree:. Finally, She expresses her wish that the tree should be remembered out of love and not just because it cannot be forgotten.
Moral: Nature can communicate with human beings. Developed by Therithal info, Chennai. Toggle navigation BrainKart. Home English 12th Std Questions Answers. The rugged trunk, indented deep with scars, Up to its very summit near the stars, A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound a What is compared to python? Rhyme scheme: a b b a f Pick out the rhyming words mentioned in the above lines. Rhyming words: round - bound; scars - stars ii No other tree could live.
But gallantly The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung In crimson clusters all the boughs among Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee; a How does the tree stand? Rhyming words: gallantly - bee; hung - among iii And oft at nights the garden overflows. With one sweet song that seems to have no close, Sung darkling from our tree, while men repose.
Rhyme scheme: a a a e Pick out the rhyming words mentioned in the above lines. Rhyming words: overflows - close - repose d How does the poet see the casurina tree? The poet sees the casurina tree through her casement, wtsteam v A grey baboon sits statue-like alone Wathcing the sunrise; while on lower boughs.
The poet then goes on to describe the life that thrives amidst every facet of the tree. But the beauty of the tree is no more than an added gift. The extent of her anguish, as, quite helplessly, she had to watch her brother and sister die, may actually be felt. Her brother died when he was just a boy of fourteen, Aru was the next to go in and there was a time when Toru too was coughing up blood and knew that the end was near.
Hence, she could have legitimately wallowed in self pity and wailed that the world was an unhappy place where people just sit and hear each other groan. The poet will not abandon the Casuarina tree even though it is a constant reminder of her irreparable personal loss.
Her eyes fill as she recalls the happy past and remembers the three care-free children playing in the garden, under its branches. And the tree loyally responds to her plaintive mood. Unfortunately, the comparison that Toru draws between this moaning and the breaking of the waves on a shingle beach may underline too boldly her reliance on poets of the West, on Matthew Arnold and his Dover Beach in particular and may call into question, for a moment though, the authenticity of her verse.
Yet, interestingly, notwithstanding the depth of her feelings, Toru Dutt makes little or no attempt to deify their Tree or bestow on it holy powers as Wordsworth does in The Oak of Guernica. Literary allusions are abundant in this poem. In "Our Casuarina Tree," the first line uses zoomorphism, describing the vine in animal terms as a python. This is used to illustrate movement, making the tree seem more actively alive and also, by implying movement, there is a subtle indication of the process of time.
This again is a simile compareing the creeper to a huge, dangerous, python. Another simile compares the unmoving baboon to a statue.
In the last line of the second stanza, the speaker uses another simile to describe the water-lillies "like snow enmassed. The line "the giant wears the scarf" is a personification of the tree. For the speaker, the tree is a link to her past. The is again a metaphor of strength comparing the tree to a giant.
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