![]() ![]() To further describe its strength, the poet says it is filled with crimson flowers in every bough like a crown that invited birds and bees. Also, the ‘giant,’ the tree has proudly worn those ‘scars’ like a ‘scarf’, representing its strength. The poet further states that no other tree would have sustained this hold, for it is too strong, but her tree did. Its hold was too tight for it had left the scar on the trunk. The poet remembers the tree being wound by a creeper like a python. The first stanza of ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ begins with the image of the tree. Sung darkling from our tree, while men repose. With one sweet song that seems to have no close, Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee In crimson clusters all the boughs among, The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung The rugged trunk, indented deep with scars,Ī creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound LIKE a huge Python, winding round and round The metaphor used in the lines “The giant wears the scarf,” “trembling Hope,” and “Time the shadow” and the similes’ “”LIKE a huge Python,” “baboon sits statue-like alone,” and “The water-lilies spring, like snow enmassed,” that add beauty to the poem and instates the poet’s feelings. The poem uses rich imagery which presents in the description of the tree’s appearance, description of dawn, and the memory of her loved ones connected with it. In the first stanza, the poet’s description of the creeper’s stronghold on the tree, and the scare symbolically represent the impact of colonialism on Indian Culture and Philosophy. Using the subjective pronoun in the title suggests the ‘subjective’ tone of the poem. The poem ‘ Our Casuarina Tree’ in itself is a symbolic representation of the poet’s memory associated with the Casuarina tree. Further, using a rhyming tercet (3 lines) rather than the regular rhyming couplet (two lines) gives the impression of overflowing which mirrors the speakers overflowing emotions towards her childhood memories and the Casuarina tree, the center of the poem. Thus, making the overall rhyme scheme of the poem ‘ABBACDDCEEE FGGFHIIHJJJ KLLKMNNMOOO PQQPRSSRTTT UVVUWXXWYYY’. Eleven lines of each stanza consist of an octave (8 lines), following the style of a sonnet has two quatrains (4 lines) with closed rhymes and a rhyming tercet. ![]() ![]() ‘ Our Casuarina Tree’ by Toru Dutt is a poem of fifty-five lines, divided into five stanzas. Also, she seeks Love’s support to preserve the tree from the affliction of time. Finally, in the concluding part, she wants to honor the tree, therefore she makes an attempt to write a poem. In the stanza follows, she tells how the tree manifests itself in the foreign land as she has seen it at her young age. In the third stanza, she ensures that the beauty of the tree is no more than an added gift, for her real connection with the tree lies on the numerous happy memories she shared with it. From her description of its appearance, she moves on to describe the activities happening around it in the next stanza. Her description of the tree expresses her pride on the tree for it remains strong despite the creeper winding around like a python. Toru Dutt’s ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ explores the poet’s childhood memories in India. ![]()
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