The Trees

1. The Trees Prepared By: - Nityanandesh Narayan Tripathi PGT English Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya

2. The trees inside are moving out into the forest The forest that was empty all these days Where no bird could sit No insect hide Annotation The forest is cut. Now it is empty (Barren) where no bird or insect is found. But today the plants preserved in my house are moving out to reforest the jungle.

3. No sun bury its feet in shadow The forest that was empty all these nights Will be full of trees by morning Annotation Sun can not make shadow (Shade under the tree) because no tree is there in Jungle. But by morning the forest will be filled with trees.

4. All nights the roots work To disengage themselves from the cracks In the verandah floor. The leaves strain towards the glass Small twigs stiff with exertion Long cramped boughs shuffling under the roof Like newly discharged patients Half dazed, moving In the clinic doors. Annotation All night the roots of the plants worked to come out. These plants are kept in verandah of poet’s house. The leaves are trying to break to glasses of the window so that they can get out. Small plants are tired and they can not move properly. They shuffle (mix up) with each other. They move half dazed (Half Sleeping) like a patients who have come out of doctor’s clinic.

5. I sit inside, doors open to veranda Writing long letters In which I scarcely mention the departure Of the forest from the house. Annotation I (The Poetess) is sitting inside her house and watching the departure of plants for reforestation. She writes a long letter (all her ideas about the destruction done to trees) in which she does not mention the departure of plants (because again people will know that forest is full of trees and they will start cutting them.)

6. The night is fresh, the whole moon shines In a sky still open The smell of leaves and lichen Still reaches like a voice into the room. Annotation The night is fresh the full moon is shining . The area of forest is filled with the smell of leaves (Of plants) and lichen (Moss). The sounds produced by these plants is filling the environment.

7. My head is full of whispers Which tomorrow will be silent. Listen. The glass is breaking. The trees are stumbling forward Into the night. Wind rushes to meet them. Annotation The poet is very happy to listen the whispers(The sound produced by plants while going out of her house). This sound will not be there when these plants would have gone. He also listens to the breaking sound of glass of window pane. The wind of the forest is also rushing (Happily blowing) to welcome the arrival of plants for reforestation

8. The moon is broken like a mirror, Its pieces flash now in the crown Of the tallest oak. Annotation The moon which was seen clearly through the deforested Jungle is now looking broken (Look at the second picture where tree leaf is covering the shine of moon and the broken parts of moon is seen).This moon is shining at the top of the tall oak tree like a crown (The forest is now glorified).

9. Meaning of Difficult Words

10. Is there any poetic device in the poem? Rhyme How to find Rhyme??????? Check for the sound of the last word the line in the stanza. e.g. The trees inside are moving out into the forest The sound in the last word is ‘est’ The forest that was empty all these days The sound in the last word is ‘ays’ Where no bird could sit The sound in the last word is ‘it’ No insect hide The sound in the last word is ‘ide’ Since there is no proper sequence in the sound pattern so there is no rhyme in this stanza