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The Trees


                                                       Summary


                    The poet talks about trees symbolically. Since the trees have remained indoors,
                    the  forest has  become  empty,  the birds and  insects  remain  without  shelter.
                    The Sun’s rays do not have the tree trucks and leaves to fall upon and thus,

                    reach the earth. She says that the forest will be full of trees the next morning.
                    The  roots  of  the  trees  are  working  hard  to  separate  from  the  floor  of  the
                    veranda where they have remained fixed. The leaves and branches are moving

                    towards the glass windows. They are desperate to move out just like a newly
                    discharged patient who has not recovered completely, moves to the exit door
                    of the hospital in a hurry. The poet is sitting in her house with the doors of the
                    veranda open. She is writing letters but does not mention this movement of

                    the trees. It is night time, the sky is clear and a bright moon is visible. She can
                    smell the leaves and lichen which seem to be calling out desperately. She hears
                    the glass of the window pane breaking. The trees are moving out and the fast

                    blowing wind embraces them.  As the trees have reached the forest, the tall
                    and strong oak tree overshadows the moon and it seems that the moon has
                    been broken into several pieces.
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