Large rocks are heavy and immobile; lions are fearsome predators, the kings of the jungle; and elephants are enormous, slow-moving creatures. Yet all these figures react to the falling tree with fear. The falling of "great trees," the poem conveys, shakes up everything around them. These ...
"By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting them back into their original landscapes, we can all make a living link between this millennium and the next, a natural bridge from the past to the ...
"Larger and finer meanings are read into the older legends of the plants, and the universality of certain myths is expressed in the concurrence of ideas in the beginnings of the great religions. One of the first figures in the leading cosmologies is a tree of life guarded by a serpent. In...
"Trees" is (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer's most popular poem and was first published in thePoetrymagazine in August 1913. It was later the title poem of a book. This entertaining, if limited, short poem of six full-rhyming couplets in which the first-person speaker praises the tree and then God...
"A poem lovely as a tree" [Joyce KilmerTrees] "Of all the trees that grow so fair," "Old England to adorn," "Greater are none beneath the Sun," "Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn" [Rudyard KiplingPuck of Pook's Hill] Trees
Examples shown are her postage stamp spiral design, a nostalgic collage and poem, and stitchery. Adriana has had a love for trees ever since childhood, when climbing to the top of a ginkgo tree was her “happy place”. Now, she finds both magic and comfort when amongst a grove of ...
Abstract This essay considers the figure of the tree in multiple poems by Aboriginal poets, and how trees in Aboriginal poetry and poetics resist certain kinds of western figurings and significations of the tree. Calibrated from A.D. Hope’s desolate, silent trees, the essay reads Unaipon, K...
Trees 优秀英语作文及其译文 Trees I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree; A tree whose hungry mouth is prest(1)Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms(3) to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest...
Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. Joyce Kilmer Tuesday, December 31, 2002 Topic(s) of this poem: trees poem poems tree Download image of this poem. Report this poem ...
A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins1 in her hair; Upon whose bosom2 snow has lain; Who intima...