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SAI International School
ENGLISH STD-4
CHAPTER-4:Song of the Trees
MIND MAP
The trees in the poem are saying that they have always played an important role in the progress of
human race on earth with their dark and leafy glade (open space). They have controlled the arrival
of seasons. They have built shady canopies in the hot areas of the earth to give shade to humans.
The trees say that they have always sacrificed their lives to fulfill man’s desire and been faithful
to humans. They have born all the pollution generated by the ungrateful humans in their heart
and given only sweet fruits in return. Humans make their homes with the help of wood that they
obtain from these trees, and fulfill all their necessities of firewood, clothing, medicines, etc.
The trees say that today man has mastered over the seas and oceans but they were
these trees who accompanied man on their voyage across these unknown and wild
seas. They could only sail the seas because the trees gave them wood to make boats
and ships
The trees in the last stanza say that the human cities have progressed by cutting
forests that have guarded them from storms and heat. The humans have forgotten the
value of trees. They fail to realise that the global temperature is rising because they
have destroyed their green cover.
