JKBOSE Class 9 English Tulip Poetry Chapter 6 On Killing a Tree Solution
JKBOSE (Jammu Kashmir State Board Of School Education) Class 9 English Solution Chapter 6 On Killing a Tree all Exercise Question Answers. Students of JK Board Grade 9 Standard can download all Answer.
ON KILLING A TREE
Understanding the Poem
1.) Growth of a tree is a long process; killing of a tree is a longer process. Do you agree?
Answer: Killing of a tree is longer process than its growth because it is not cut by a simple jab of the knife. It grows consuming the earth and it is uprooted from the inside the earth which turn make the tree and long time to cut it again.
2.) How has the tree grown to its full size? List the words suggestive of its life and activity.
Answer: The tree grows slowly by consuming the earth. It is fed by the earth’s crust and years of sunlight, air and water. The suggestive words for the trees life and activities are consuming, rising, feeding, absorbing, sprouting, bleeding, scorching and chocking.
3.) What does the poet mean by the bleeding barks? What makes it bleed?
Answer: The bark is the outer layer of the tree. When the tree is cut, there is a liquid substance that comes out of the tree, which is called as sap. The outer layer is just like skin of a human being. When the tree is cut, the sap comes out just like blood comes out of human beings. In this context the poet wants to imply that just likes humans, trees also have life and they get hurt when they are being cut down.
4.) The poet says ‘No’ in the beginning of the third stanza. What does it signify?
Answer: In the third stanza, the poet says that the process of cutting trees has not been finished yet. It will grow again in its original size. It has to be pulled out from its roots.
5.) What does the poet mean by the earth-cave?
Answer: The earth cave is a place in which the root of a tree stays for many years to go. In this poem the poet wants to say that the roots of the tree are deeply rooted in the ground. It has to be pulled with complete strength to bring it out.
6.) What according to the poet can kill a tree?
Answer: According to the poet, killing a tree is not an easy task. Just cutting down its trunk won’t cut it completely. To kill the tree its root is to be pulled out. Then it has to be roped, tied, and pulled out from its cave. After that it is hardened, twisted, withered, and then it is killed completely.
7.) How do you find the style employed by the poet in the poem ? Read the poem once again
Answer: There is no style employed by the poet in the poem. There is neither any rhyming scheme nor any fixed stanza pattern in the poem.
Learning about the literary devices
1.) Beginning with the title, what are the words and images that are suggestive of violence in the poem.
Answer: Chop, roped, tied, pulled out, chocking, browning, hardening, twisting, withering are the words that suggest violence in the poem.
Discussion
1.) The poet says that killing a tree is not so easy. Do you agree?
Answer: Cutting a tree is not a piece of cake. It takes years to grow for a tree but cutting down is also not an easy task to do. While growing, it takes its nourishment from earth, air, water. The roots are hidden in the earth cave which is hard to find and cut. To cut it completely, we need to pull it out from its roots. Then it has to be twisted, withered, hardened and then completely kill it. So, killing a tree takes a long time.
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