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SAI International School
Grade IX-English
Module 23 - On Killing A Tree (Poem)
By Gieve Patel

Introduction to the lesson
The poet sensitizes the reader and highlights the fact that trees are living

things. He equates trees with humans to convey that trees should not be
cut because destroying trees is just like killing a human being. A tree
does not die by merely cutting because it re-grows from where it is cut. If
it has to be destroyed, then it has to be uprooted.

Poem and Explanation

It takes much time to kill a tree,
Not a simple jab of the knife
Will do it. It has grown