On Killing a Tree Summary: West Bengal Board Class 12 English
On Killing a Tree
Gieve Patel
Author name:- | Gieve Patel |
Born:- | 1940 |
About author:-
Gieve Patel is a renowned Indian poet playwright and painter. In his poetry, Patel uses syncopated rhythm. He brings the flavour of everyday’s speech in his poetry. Some of this notable works are Mirroring (1991), how do you withstand, body (1976).
The poem is about the harm done to the environment by human beings. In a voice sarcasm and irony, the poet speaks of man’s violence and impatience towards nature. The poem is written in free verse.
Summary
The present posits a scathing attack upon the human action of reckless cutting down of trees. The poem is a lyric where Patel raises an angry voice against deforestation. The poet considers the cutting down of a tree to be violent ritual. He looks the felling of a tree as a murder. It is a murder which is heinous in the slow drawing out of the action. The poet caste a pathetic glance at the poet thinks that human beings harbour an intense dislike for full-grown tree. Therefore, a tree is cut in a cruel process that reflects the merciless mood of the cutter. The poet says, destruction of the tree is not complete by the mere felling of it. The tree is removed from its place of birth by vengefully uprooting it and leaving the stump to winter.