tree ( ) her absence. The poet ( ) the tree’s memory to her loved ones, who are not alive. She immortalizes the tree through her poem like the poet Wordsworth who ( ) 12th - - Our Casuarina Tree Page the yew tree of Borrowdale in verse. She expresses her wish that the tree should be remembered out of love and not just because it cannot be ( ) .
[python, statue, nature, casement, nostalgic, lamenting, impressive, forgotten, giant, consecrates, springing, sanctified] .Based on your understanding of the poem, answer the following questions in one or two sentences each. a) What is the creeper compared to? b) How does the creeper appear on the tree? c) Describe the garden during the night.
d) How does the poet spend her winter? e) Name the bird that sings in the poet’s garden. f) Why is the casuarina tree dear to poet’s heart? g) Does nature communicate with human beings?
h) What has Wordsworth sanctified in his poem? i) To whom does Toru Dutt want to consecrate the tree’s memory? j) The casuarina tree will be remembered for ever. Why?
. Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow. a) A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound No other tree could live. i) Which tree is referred to in the above lines?
ii) How does the tree survive the tight hold of the creeper? iii) Why does Toru Dutt use the expression ‘a creeper climbs’? b) The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung In crimson clusters all the bough among! i) Who is the giant here?
ii) Why is the scarf colourful? c) “Fear, trembling Hope, and Death, the skeleton, And Time the shadow”, and though weak the verse That would thy beauty fain, oh, fain rehearse, May Love defend thee from oblivion’s curse. i) What does the poet mean by the expression ‘May love defend thee from oblivion’s curse?’ ii) What does the expression ‘fain’ convey? iii) What does the poet convey through the expression ‘Fear, trembling Hope’?