Hi Everyone!! This article will share A Heritage of Trees Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by David Horsburgh. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions & answers of A New Religion, When Sachin Walks Out To Bat and Champion Women so, you can go through these posts as well.
A Heritage of Trees Questions & Answers
Question 1: Read and answer the questions:
I saw a man
Attack a tree today
The road from
Mysore To Ooty
About twenty miles along it
There you’ll see a tragic sight.
i. What does attack mean? How was the man attacking the tree?
Answer: The word ‘Attack’ means to hurt someone. But in this poem, it means ‘to cut’. The man was attacking the tree by cutting it.
ii. Where does the road go from?
Answer: The road goes from Mysore to Ooty.
iii. What does ‘a tragic sight’ refer to?
Answer: ‘A tragic sight’ refers to mutilated, ripped, crippled and dead trees.
Question 2: In the poem, the words ‘A line of noble trees’ tells us that the poet
Answer:
i. admires trees
ii. hates tress
Question 3: Why do you think the poet says, ‘Let them come….To look once more on their life’s work’?
Answer:
i. Those who planted them will punish the men.
ii. Those who planted them will feel pained if they come back to life.
Question 4: Which words and phrases in the poem tell us that the poet feels that trees have been misused or hurt by man?
Answer: Words and phrases like ‘mutilated, ripped untimely, lacerated and attenuated cripples, tell us that the poet feels that the trees have been misused or hurt by man.
Question 5: What is the message hidden in the poem?
Answer: The message hidden in the poem is that trees are a blessing for us and they form the basis of sustaining life on earth. We should protect them however, in the name of progress, human beings are cutting them mercilessly without thinking about the after effects.
So, these were A Heritage of Trees Questions & Answers.