Q. 1. Bring out the appropriateness of the title of the poem "On Killing a Tree". Ans: To the world of human conscience, Gieve Patel's poem "On Killing a Tree" extracted from the poet's original work Poems does convey to us a sense irony that has been echoed through splendid piece of poetic exuberance. It feels like that cutting down a tree almost becomes a ceremonial task. At the surface level the readers are exposed to the time-consuming task of killing a tree and on a deeper level the perversity and tragedy of the action is implied as the tree stands as the symbol of the flame of life invariably implicating the sense of murder by the human beings. As a simple jab of the knife or hacking and chopping can't not kill a tree, cruel man uses a number of ruthless methods to kill a tree. So in order to Kill a tree,its life-supporting root is to be removed from the earth. It has to roped, tied and pulled out or snapped out entirely from the 'earth-cav...
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