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3. Imagery: the poet has tried to create a scene in which she is observing all the things
happening (the night is fresh……into the rooms)
CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY

 Whispers: murmur
 Stumbling: trip over
 Flash: glare, shine
 Oak: A large, strong tree generally used for making furniture

Her head is full of the slow sounds made by the trees which are desperate to move out.
These sounds will not be heard the next day. The poet asks the reader to listen carefully as a
change is about to take place. She hears the glass window breaking and the trees stumble
out into the night. The wind is blowing outside. It meets the trees. The moon is like a mirror
and it appears to have been broken into pieces as the shadow of the oak tree divides the
moon into many fragments.

Literary Devices:
 Simile: The moon is compared to a mirror (Moon is broken like a mirror)
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ASSIGNMENT: Questions & answers

Q1: Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest.
Q2: What picture do these words create in your mind: “... sun bury its feet in shadow...”?
What could the poet mean by the sun’s ‘feet’?
Q3: Where are the trees in the poem? What do their roots, their leaves and their twigs do?
Q4: What does the poet compare their branches to?
Q5: How does the poet describe the moon-
(a) at the beginning of the third stanza, and
(b) at its end? What causes this change?
Q. 6. Do you really think that the trees can disengage themselves and shift into the forest? If
not, why does the poetess write like this? Justify.