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On killing a tree by Gieve Patel in Malayalam

The poet sensitizes the reader and highlights the fact that trees are living things. He equates trees with humans to convey that trees should not be cut because destroying trees is just like killing a human being. A tree does not die by merely cutting because it regrows from where it is cut. If it has to be destroyed, then it has to be uprooted Literary Devices 1. No rhyme scheme is there in the poem. It is written in free verse. There is no rhyme or rhythm. 2 Enjambment: When one sentence continues into two or more lines. Not a simple jab of the knife Will do it. It has grown Slowly consuming the earth Rising out of it, feeding Upon its crust, absorbing Years of sunlight, air, water, And out of its leprous hide Sprouting leaves. The most sensitive, hidden For years inside the earth. 3.Metaphor : indirect comparison Leprous hide - the uneven colour of the surface of the trunk of a tree is compared to the skin of a person suffering from leprosy. Bleeding bark - the sap coming out of tree where it is cut is compared to the bleeding from the wound in a human’s body. 4.Alliteration: repetition of a consonant sound in 2 or more closely places words. Bleeding bark - ‘b’ sound White and wet - ‘w’ sound 5. Repetition: a word or sentence is repeated to lay emphasis on it. ‘Pulled out’ is repeated on killing a tree summary in Malayalam