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Syed asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 9 years ago

Can someone help me analyse a poem (Trees by Owen Sheers)? 10 POINTS!?

The Poem:

Trees

You tell me you've planted an oak

in the middle of the top field.

When I ask how long before

it'll be fully grown, you nod your head

and say 'some time'

and I realise I should have known.

After all, you planted trees for our arrivals,

one for each of us at the north, south and west of the house,

and now you have planted this -

and finger-thick sapling drawn by the breeze into a long bow

loaded with the promise of what it will become,

silhouetted against a reddening sky

that could be the setting or the rising of a sun.

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  • 9 years ago
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    Trees = People

    an oak being planted is a life being created, it will take some time for the person to grow and mature, realizing that should have been known is saying that it is obvious that it will take a bit of time.

    stability and history was set within the house in order to compliment this new life, within various categories.

    Randomly without warning negative energy interferes with the fresh and gentle life, as it has matured but is not yet fully grown.

    But there is a promise and guarantee that the "planted trees" will become the life's shadow and protection, even against all odds and negative energy...which is the reddening sky.

    The rising of life and its protector and enhancer of life, which is the sun...it helps tress and plants grown naturally

    This whole poem is metaphoric...

    Source(s): Self Knowledge
  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Owen Sheers Poems

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    You could say the title, "Tree" means liberally the family tree. A parent has planted trees around the house for every child that is in the family, and now they're expected another. So another tree has been planted, and "the rising of a sun" is a play on words, "sun" is also "son."

  • Jojo
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    I'm assuming that the saplings represent the dreams of the children. The sapling planter is their mother. Dreams can be born, and they can die, and you never know when they'll come true

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