"Our Casuarina Tree" Toru Dutt: the poetess‚ while living abroad‚ is pining for the scenes of her native land and reliving the memories of her childhood. In the first part of the poem the poetess depicts the casuarina tree trailed by a creeper vine like a huge python‚ winding round and round with the rough trunk‚ sunken deep with scars. It reached to the height touching very summit near the stars. The casuarina tree stood alone unaccompanied in the compound wearing the scarf of the creeper hung with
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Our Casuarina Tree is a poem by Toru Dutt‚ an Indian poet.The poem gives an objective description of the tree and the charm associated with poet’s childhood. It begins with an account of the giant tree with a creeper wrapped around it like a huge python. It is the centre of busy life of birds and beasts. The tree is depicted as grand and charming. It has become dear to the poet because of the memories that surround it - memories of a time when happy children played under its shade. The thought brings
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’’ THE CASUARINA TREE ’’ is one of the most touching poem by Toru Dutt who was born in Rambagan ‚ Kolkata. She had two siblings Aru & Abju . Both of them died and Toru was gripped in deep melancholy. Actually this fact influences the entire lyric......... The casuarina tree is winded round by a networks of creepers which resembles a python curling and crushing its prey.The beautiful red flowers excucively decorate the entire casuarina teee.They attract the bees and birds
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and can no longer afford the luxury of mediocrity if we are to forge ahead. This rapidly changing nuclear age requires our youth to be intellectually far more alert and competent than their predecessors‚ and therefore every young man and woman today studying in schools‚ colleges and universities must aim at academic ability of the highest order. In a developing nation like ours‚ where large numbers are still unable to acquire even primary education‚ those undergoing higher education constitute a
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brings to the light the idea that a timeless quality of the tree and the world around it possess. I think that this is what I find the most fascinating about the poem for this might be how India could be described to the West‚ and given that Dutt was one of the first poets to be read by Western audiences‚ this could be part of her intent. I find myself persuaded by the element of nostalgia for the past that is featured in the love of the tree in the poem. In the horrific conditions of what is and
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writes this in reminiscence of the Casuarina tree that grew in the courtyard of her childhood home. The poem opens with a description of the tree‚ tall enough to make it seem like it touches the stars‚ strong enough to continue growing despite scars on its trunk and despite all this it provides support to a creeper. And yet she gives it the air of a Gentleman when she describes how the tree is forever adorned with flowers and birds and bees. Thus we see the tree in her childhood was not only as a
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The Iguana Tree Summary The novel The Iguana Tree describes what a person might go through to come to the America. There are many different reasons to want to come to the America such as a job‚ to attend school‚ and a better life‚ etc. A reason to come over illegally would be not having the money to be able to afford the legal fees to come legally. In this novel‚ the man wanted to come to the America to find a job‚ to make more money for his family. Once he had enough money he was going to
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The Hummingbird Tree Alan The story is told by Alan who is also the central character in the novel. Most of it is told by the older Alan in flashback. Through-out the novel the servants and villagers refer to him as ’Master Alan’ although he is a child‚ this has to do with the social climate at the time. Several things mark off Alan as being superior to the other children; his clothes are better‚ he uses standard English‚ he can read‚ his manners are refined. The major conflict he faces rests
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Although on the front page of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn claims to be written by Betty Smith‚ it is simply a pseudonym for Elizabeth Lillian Weher. Elizabeth Weher has written A Tree Grows In Brooklyn‚ Tomorrow Will Be Better‚ Maggie-Now‚ and Joy In the Morning. Betty Smith‚ née Elizabeth Lillian Weher was born on December 15th‚ 1896 in Brooklyn‚ New York. “Smith needed a copy of her birth certificate to get a passport‚ she was surprised to discover her name listed as "Sophia." Her mother told
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Giving Tree‚ the boy was interested in the tree for a short while and then he started to grow up‚ causing him to leave the tree periodically. And every time the boy came back he would take something of the trees and use it for himself‚ but the tree loved the boy so much that it made the tree happy. Every time the boy would come back to the tree‚ the tree would be so happy to see him that she would shake and tremble‚ this is the periods of time the boy would come back to only use the tree for what
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