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ENGLISH

LITERATURE
The heart of the tree

Chinmay Narwadkar
9B
Alliteration

 The poet has deployed alliteration in many places to add to the


rhythm of the poem. Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds
at the beginning or stressed syllables of words. Some examples are:

The first stanza


What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants a friend of sun and sky;
He plants a home to heaven anigh;
In hushed and happy twilight heard
The treble of heaven’s harmony
Metaphor

 Metaphor is an implied comparison between two different things


where there is a point of similarity. Some examples are:

The first stanza


“the flag of breezes free” and
“the shaft of beauty towering
high” are examples of metaphors
in the poem. Here the leafy
branches of a tree are compared
to a flag and the stem is
compared to a beautiful shaft
standing high.
Circumlocution

 In a circumlocution something is referred to in a roundabout


way, using different words rather than stating it directly. Some
examples are:

The second stanza


Using “days to be” for “future”
and “unborn eyes” for “next
generations” are examples of
circumlocution in the poem
Metonymy

 Metonymy is a figure of speech where one word or phrase is


substituted by another one closely associated with it. Some
examples are:

In all stanzas
• He plants a home to heaven anigh;
(near the heaven)
• The treble of heaven’s harmony
• The joy that unborn eyes shall see
• He plants in sap and leaf and wood
Enumeration

 Enumeration is the act of listing things one by one. It is “a type


of amplification or division in which a subject is further
distributed into components or parts”. Some examples are:

In all stanzas
In the poem, the poet has
conveyed three different benefits
of plantation in three different
stanzas: maintaining the beauty of
nature, duties to future
generations and contribution to
nation’s growth.

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