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Chapter 7: The Trees
📖 Poem
Class 10
✍️ Adrienne Rich
NCERT First Flight
📖 Chapter Summary
This poem uses trees as a metaphor for freedom and the natural world. The trees inside a house (like decorative plants) are trying to break free and move to the forest. The poem suggests that everything in nature, including women and marginalised people, needs to break free from confinement.
📖 NCERT Chapter — First Flight
✅ NCERT Exercise Solutions
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Comprehension Check
4 Q
Q1.
Where are the trees?
Ans: Inside a house, like decorative plants. They are trying to break free.
Q2.
What is the poet trying to say through trees?
Ans: The trees represent everything that is confined and needs to break free.
Q3.
Who is the 'head' referred to in the poem?
Ans: The head of the house — the person who has kept the trees confined.
Q4.
Why are the trees in a 'house'?
Ans: The house symbolises confinement.
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Thinking about the Poem
2 Q
Q1.
What is the central idea?
Ans: The struggle for freedom from confinement.
Q2.
Why does the poet use trees as symbols?
Ans: Trees symbolise nature, growth, and freedom.
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Literary Devices
3 Q
Q1.
Identify symbolism.
Ans: Trees = freedom; House = confinement.
Q2.
Identify personification.
Ans: Trees are given human qualities — 'stumbling forward'.
Q3.
Identify alliteration.
Ans: 'Leaves and branches' — repetition of 'l' and 'b'.
❓ Important Questions
Q1. What do the trees symbolise?
Anyone who is confined and struggling for freedom — women, marginalised groups, nature itself.
Q2. Why are the trees in a 'house'?
The house symbolises confinement — everything that has been caged by society.
📄 Previous Year Questions (PYQ)
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Q1. What is the significance of trees?
Trees represent freedom, growth, and the desire to break away from confinement.
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Q2. Why does the poet say trees are moving out?
To show the natural urge for freedom from confinement.
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Q3. What does the poem convey about freedom?
All living things desire freedom, and confinement is unnatural.
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This poem is about trees breaking free.
यह कविता पेड़ों के आज़ाद होने के बारे में है।
The trees inside a house want to escape to the forest.
घर के अंदर के पेड़ जंगल में भागना चाहते हैं।
Their roots, leaves, and branches are struggling.
उनकी जड़ें, पत्तियाँ और शाखाएँ संघर्ष कर रही हैं।
The trees represent freedom and nature.
पेड़ स्वतंत्रता और प्रकृति का प्रतिनिधित्व करते हैं।
The poem shows the need for liberation.
कविता मुक्ति की आवश्यकता दिखाती है।
Confinement is unnatural.
कैद करना अप्राकृतिक है।