ON KILLING A TREE (Notes) Title: The poem, On Killing a Tree, latently raves about, in a concentrated approach, of the trees, and on the act of killing; both these phenomena contrasted and confiscated together with intense terms, phrases and expressions. With its mere span of 35 odd countable lines when the tree is talked of, the essence of a tree is encapsulated in language, such as “Years of sunlight, air, water”, “ leperous hide / Sprouting leaves”, “ green twigs”, “The root”, “white, wet, most sensitive, hidden”, “strength of the tree” , “consuming the earth”, and many more. But, the “killing” overpowers; the very opening line is set to “kill a tree”. The instruments, the agents, the means follow: “the knife”, “hack and chop”, “pain”, “bleeding bark”, “roped, tied”, “pulled out entirely”, “snapped out”, “scorching and choking”, “browning, hardening, twisting, withering”. With the strength of the tree being exposed the “anchoring earth” turns into the “ea...
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