ON KILLING A TREE PRESENTATION (ppt)
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The document provides biographical information about the poet Gieve Patel. It notes that he was born in 1946 in Mumbai, India, and works as a poet, playwright, painter, and doctor. His poems often focus on the human body. The document then shares the poem "On Killing a Tree" by Gieve Patel. The poem describes how killing a tree is not a simple process, as a tree grows slowly over many years absorbing resources from the earth. It explains that to truly kill a tree, one must pull its roots out of the ground, exposing its sensitive root system and cutting it off from the earth, then allowing it to wither without resources.
ON KILLING A TREE PRESENTATION (ppt)
- 1. ON KILLING A TREE P CHIDHAMBARAM, J.N.V GANJAM
- 2. GIEVE PATEL P CHIDHAMBARAM, J.N.V GANJAM
- 3. ABOUT THE POET “GIEVE PATEL” He was born in 1946 in Mumbai. Is a Poet, Playwright, Painter, and Doctor by profession. Human Body is a recurrent theme in his poems. Hence he is called “ Poet Of The Body” His Works:Mirrored Mirroring, How Do You Withstand Body. P CHIDHAMBARAM, J.N.V GANJAM
- 4. It takes much time to kill a tree, 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. P CHIDHAMBARAM, J.N.V GANJAM
- 5. So hack and chop But this alone wont do it. Not so much pain will do it. The bleeding bark will heal And from close to the ground Will rise curled green twigs, Miniature boughs Which if unchecked will expand again To former size. P CHIDHAMBARAM, J.N.V GANJAM
- 6. No, The root is to be pulled out Out of the anchoring earth; It is to be roped, tied, And pulled out - snapped out Or pulled out entirely, Out from the earth-cave, And the strength of the tree exposed, The source, white and wet, The most sensitive, hidden For years inside the earth. P CHIDHAMBARAM, J.N.V GANJAM
- 7. Then the matter Of scorching and choking In sun and air, Browning, hardening, Twisting, withering, And then it is done. P CHIDHAMBARAM, J.N.V GANJAM
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