1. Identify the lines that reveal the critical tone of the poet towards
the felling of the tree.
2. Identify the words that help you understand the nature of the
poet’s father.
3. ‘Trees are sacred my grandmother used to say’— what does
the poet imply by this line?
4. ‘No trees except the one which grows and seethes in one’s
dreams’— why is the phrase ‘grows and seethes’ used?
5. How does the banyan tree stand out as different from other
trees? What details of the tree does the poet highlight in the
poem?
6. What does the reference to raw mythology imply?
7. ‘Whose roots lay deeper than our lives’— what aspect of human
behaviour does this line reflect?
8. Comment on the contemporary concern that the poem echoes.
1. Most of us have had this experience of seeing trees in our
neighbourhood being mercilessly cut down in order to build a
house or a public building or to widen a road. Describe any
such experience you have had of the felling of a tree you were
attached to, with reasons for your special attachment to the
tree.
2. Find out the equivalents for sheoga, oudumber and neem in your
language and English and the equivalent of banyan in your
language.
3. The adjective ‘scraggy’ is used to describe ‘roots’ in the poem.
Find out two other items which could be described as ‘scraggy’:
scraggy…………….
4. Use the following adjectives to describe suitable items
raw aerial sacred
SUGGESTED READING
1. ‘Death of Grandmother’ by Dilip Chitre.
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