The poet is telling about his experience of how he planted a cherry tree and its struggle. In the beginning, the poet tells that it was eight years have passed when he thought that he must have his own tree, and take care of it and in such thought, he just sow a cherry seed in his garden and just watered it once, and went bed after that he literary forgot that he sows a cherry tree and he has to take care of it.
Further, the poet says that cherries have their way to grow up means nature has its way to grow though no one knows or takes care of it. Suddenly, the poet saw over the summer season and at the end of May month that the cherry grew up. It was very little as a five-month-old child’s age.
The poet tells the condition and threats of the cherry sapling. It was hidden in the tall wild grass. The leaves of the cherry are eaten by goats. It is a great threat to Cherry sapling that at any moment the grass cutter scythe split it apart and monsoon causing damage to Cherry sapling. The stem of the Cherry sapling dried.
Even so, next spring the poet watched three new shoots grow on it. The cherry sapling starts to survive in the worst conditions. The young cherry tree struggles and pushes itself to grow upward, its branches (arms) are growing fast to take light, air, and sun rays.
Further, the poet says that he could only watch nature’s ways of growing as anyone who just watched the growth of trees. The poet is wandering in the thoughts that how time grows the Cherry tree and makes a miracle of growth from the Cherry tree.
In the next year, the poet went away to spend a season in Kashmir. When he returned from Kashmir, he was very thin and rather became poor but when he saw the Cherry tree became richer because the cherry tree grew six feet tall and laded with greenery. The poet saw and scarcely believed that the cherry has a berry on the one branch which is ripened and looks like a red jewel in the sun’s rays.
In the next year, the Cherry tree was blooming with flowers and the flowers are very small, pink colour, very tender (fragile) and at any mildest breath or mildest wind (breeze) the flowers will quickly fall.
In the last stanza, the poet was enjoying the sights of the Cherry tree and the nature of its surrounding. The poet lay comfortably on the grass under the Cherry tree and looked up through the leaves at clear the blue sky, the singing birds (finches) are singing they flying over the Cherry tree from the gap of leaves and branches. While the bees are sucking the nectar happily (ecstasy) from every bloomed flower. After that, the sun sank very fast and stars appeared in the sky. In the night the moon moths, singing crickets and the poet praised the beauty of night stars and the Cherry tree that small cherry tree was grown by the poet.
Figure of speech
The poem cherry tree is about the cherry tree which the poet wants to plant. He sow the seeds and seeds grow into a sapling and then in to a plant. It took eight years for the plant to produce cherry after so much struggle like extreme cold conditions, goat eating leaves of the tree, fungus of the plant etc.,
Metaphor is a figure of speech in which the poet compares two things but cannot be taken literally. Example:’ Ripened and jewelled in the sun’ he tells that the berry is like a jewel in the sunlight which shows us that he admires the fruit but not ‘it looks like a jewel’.
Personification means the author's way of behaviour the plant or any non living thing in comparison with a human being. Example: The flower danced in the cool breeze. In this poem it says about the cherry tree. ‘Its arms in a fresh fierce lust’.
Alliteration – Consonant sounds are repeated in successive words for melody. “Its arms in a fresh fierce lust” Here, the consonant sound ‘f’ is repeated pleasingly. “Made a miracle from green growing” Here, the consonant sound ‘g’ is repeated pleasingly. “Shrivelled the slender stem….” Here, the consonant sound ‘s’ is repeated pleasingly.
Antithesis – Opposite ideas/words are used together. Example – “but cherries have a way of growing, Though no one’s caring very much or knowing.” -Opposite idea of growing without caring is seen in the lines. “It was very small, five months child Lost in the tall grass running wild.” -Opposite ideas – small and tall are seen in the lines.
Climax – words, phrases, lines are arranged in ascending order of their importance. Examples “Pink, fragile, quick to fall”
Personification – Human qualities are attributed to non-human, inanimate objects. Example – “A Tree had come to stay” A tree is given the human quality of coming and staying.
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