The moral lesson of the poem Trees is that the creativity of poets i.e. poems can never be compared with the creativity of God. God has created beautiful trees while humans cut them down and write poems on the pages made out of the wood.

Hence, we are fools as instead of appreciating the real beauty, we destroy it.

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In the poem Trees , the tree itself is described in terms of a lady because the poet refers it as “her” in 3rd and 4th couplets. In addition, its branches are described as hair and its upper part is referred to as bosom (which means breasts of female). And the poet also describes how the spring breeze and the rain tease it, kiss it and also do love making. Hence tree symbolises a female in this poem.

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The poem Trees is symbolic and has ample of images. e.g. in the first line, the poet says that he has never seen a poem as lovely as a tree. A poem and a tree are two different things and do not have any relation. However, here the poet brings both of them into a comparison. According to him, poetry is the creativity of the poet while tree is the creativity of God and the letter is far better than the former.

Next, the poet symbolises earth as a mother which feeds the tree. The surface of earth is symbolised as breast which feeds water to the tree.

In the third couplet, the poet imagines that the tree is praying to God and calls its branches as leafy arms. In the fourth couplet, the poet describes how the tree provides shelter to birds. Here the branches of the tree are called hair (of a woman).

Finally the poet calls the tree’s upper part as breast (which are found in humans) and says that life us, the tree also suffers (during the winters) and has feelings (as it intimates with the rain.

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