Trees By Joyce Kilmer
Introduction: Trees is a poem beautiful poem in your class written by Joyce Kilmer. The poet wants us to understand the ability and beauty of a tree in this poem. It tells us how the tree can survive with all-natural resources and how it uses God’s blessings for its survival. The tree makes itself and the world so beautiful that nothing can be compared with a tree.
SUMMARY OF TREES KILMER
In this poem, the poet comes up with a lovely idea of personifying a person’s actions to an inanimate object, tree. A tree gets its water from nourishment and survival from the earth’s sweet flowing breast. Here hungry mouth of a tree represents the roots clinging on to the ground while earth’s sweet flowing breast means the water that nourishes the life of a tree. In nature we see a mother feeds its young ones with its breast milk. This is how a tree is compared (personified) with a mother and her child. A tree growing upwards seems to reach God to pray for His blessings, just as people from all around the world through belonging to different races, cultures, beliefs praise, worship and thank their God for His bountiful blessings. Trees also provide shade and shelter to birds and other creatures. In the end, the poet concludes by saying that no matter what man does, no poem or work of art will be lovelier than what God has already created on the earth.
Themes
The main themes discussed throughout the poem “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer are God’s creation, wonder, and nature. The poem praises the universe that was created by God and wonders about its immense complexity. The speaker knows, very simply and absolutely, that he will never see/write a “lovely as a tree” poem. In this declaration, he accepts his own failure to live up to the creation of the natural world. The power is reserved for God to create something as magnificent and marvellous as a flower.
Questions and Answers
Q. What is the tone of Trees by Joyce Kilmer?
Ans. The tone of Joyce Kilmer’s ‘Trees’ is light-hearted, as the final couplet makes clear: poems are foolish things next to nature, but nature – embodied in the poem by the tree – is superior because it is the work of God.
Reading is Fun
Q. No 1. What does the poet compare a tree, with?
Ans. The poet in the poem “Trees” compares a tree with a poem.
Q. No 2. What does the tree look at all day?
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