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Question
The cherry tree has inspired the poet to compose the poem. Such poems, describing Nature or aspects of Nature are called ‘Nature poems’. Find out some expressions from the poem that bring out the elements of the beauty of Nature.
Solution
Some expressions from the poem that bring out the elements of the beauty of Nature are as follows:
- “…in the grass”
- “… that summer near the end of May”
- “I found a tree…”
- “…tall grass running wild”
- “…ate the leaves…”
- “…slender stem…”
- “…light and air and sun”
- “…and the rain…”
- “…richer by a cherry tree…”
- “…my own dark cherry…”
- “…-a berry.”
- “Ripened and jeweled in the sun,”
- “…blossoms small…”
- “Pink, fragile, quick to fall”
- …sleepiest breeze”
- “…on the grass…”
- “…through the leaves at the blue Blind sky and the finches as they flew”
- “…dappled green…”
- “…bees in an ecstasy drank…”
- “Of nectar from each bloom and the sun sank”
- “Swiftly, and the stars turned in the sky,”
- “…moon-moths and singing crickets…”
- “…Night and Stars and tree:”
- “That small, the cherry…”
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