by Gieve Patel
The poem depicts a clear picture of man’s cruelty towards trees. The poet states that trees are living things, and we should not cut them. Destroying a tree is like killing a human being. A tree does not die by just chopping and cutting. It grows again from where it has been cut. It only dies when it is uprooted from the ground. In the entire poem, the poet mentions the idea of how to kill a tree to make humans feel that they are doing a heinous crime. The poem shows the destructive nature of humans and the indestructibility of nature.