Trees poem class 7th Tulip Series

Class 7th English poem

2. TREES

Only God Can Make A Tree 

I think that I shall never see 

A poem lovely as a tree; 

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed 

Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; 

A tree that looks at God all day,

 And lifts her leafy arms to pray; 

A tree that may in summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair; 

Upon whose bosom snow has lain,

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

 (Joyce Kilmer)

SUMMARY OF TREES

In this poem, the poet comes up with a lovely idea of personifying a person’s actions to an inanimate object, tree. A tree gets its water from nourishment and survival from the earth’s sweet flowing breast. Here hungry mouth of a tree represents the roots clinging on to the ground while earth’s sweet flowing breast means the water that nourishes the life of a tree. In nature we see a mother feeds its young ones with its breast milk. This is how a tree is compared (personified) with a mother and her child. A tree growing upwards seems to reach God to pray for His blessings, just as people from all around the world through belonging to different races, cultures, beliefs praise, worship and thank their God for His bountiful blessings. Trees also provide shade and shelter to birds and other creatures. In the end, the poet concludes by saying that no matter what man does, no poem or work of art will be lovelier than what God has already created on the earth.

Questions and Answers

Reading is Fun

Q. No 1. What does the poet compare a tree, with?

Ans. The poet in the poem “Trees” compares a tree with a poem.

Q. No 2. What does the tree look at all day?

Ans. The tree looks at God all day.

Q. No 3. How does the tree pray?

Ans. The tree lifts her leafy arms to pray.

Q. No 4. What does a tree wear in summer?

Ans. The tree wears a nest of robins in summer.

TREES

Language Work

A. Write True (T) or False (F):

a. The poet shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. -----------------------------    True

b. Poems are not made by fools like the poet.            -------------------------------    False

c. Only God can make a tree.                                     --------------------------------    True

d. The tree does like rain.                                            --------------------------------    False

e. The tree looks at God all day.                                  --------------------------------    True

B. Pick out the rhyming words from the poem:

Ans. See-tree, day-pray, wear-hair, lain-rain etc.