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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
                                                          CLASS X
                                                         THE TREES

                    ASSIGNMENT: Questions
                    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.
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