1. The Trees Prepared By: - Nityanandesh Narayan Tripathi PGT English
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya

2. Annotation The trees inside are moving out into the forest
The forest that was empty all these days
Where no bird could sit
No insect hide
Annotation
The forest is cut. Now it is empty (Barren) where no bird or insect is found. But today the plants preserved in my house are moving out to reforest the jungle.

3. Annotation No sun bury its feet in shadow
The forest that was empty all these nights
Will be full of trees by morning
Annotation
Sun can not make shadow (Shade under the tree) because no tree is there in Jungle. But by morning the forest will be filled with trees.

4. Annotation All nights the roots work
To disengage themselves from the cracks
In the verandah floor.
The leaves strain towards the glass
Small twigs stiff with exertion
Long cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
Like newly discharged patients
Half dazed, moving
In the clinic doors.
Annotation
All night the roots of the plants worked to come out. These plants are kept in verandah of poet’s house. The leaves are trying to break to glasses of the window so that they can get out. Small plants are tired and they can not move properly. They shuffle (mix up) with each other. They move half dazed (Half Sleeping) like a patients who have come out of doctor’s clinic.

5. Annotation I sit inside, doors open to veranda Writing long letters
In which I scarcely mention the departure
Of the forest from the house.
Annotation
I (The Poetess) is sitting inside her house and watching the departure of plants for reforestation. She writes a long letter (all her ideas about the destruction done to trees) in which she does not mention the departure of plants (because again people will know that forest is full of trees and they will start cutting them.)

6. Annotation The night is fresh, the whole moon shines
In a sky still open
The smell of leaves and lichen
Still reaches like a voice into the room.
Annotation
The night is fresh the full moon is shining . The area of forest is filled with the smell of leaves (Of plants) and lichen (Moss). The sounds produced by these plants is filling the environment.

7. Annotation My head is full of whispers Which tomorrow will be silent.
Listen. The glass is breaking.
The trees are stumbling forward
Into the night. Wind rushes to meet them.
Annotation
The poet is very happy to listen the whispers (The sound produced by plants while going out of her house). This sound will not be there when these plants would have gone. He also listens to the breaking sound of glass of window pane. The wind of the forest is also rushing (Happily blowing) to welcome the arrival of plants for reforestation

8. Annotation The moon is broken like a mirror,
Its pieces flash now in the crown
Of the tallest oak.
Annotation
The moon which was seen clearly through the deforested Jungle is now looking broken (Look at the second picture where tree leaf is covering the shine of moon and the broken parts of moon is seen). This moon is shining at the top of the tall oak tree like a crown (The forest is now glorified).

9. Meaning of Difficult Words
Disengage
Separate
Cracks
Small openings
Strain
Make effort to move
Twigs
Small branches
Stiff
Hard
Exertion
Tiredness
Cramped
Contracted
Boughs
Cluster of Branches
Shuffle
Dragging the feet, Jumble Up
Half – Dazed
Half Sleeping
Scarcely
Hardly,
Lichen
Moss (In Hindi – ‘kaai’)
Whisper
Low Voices, Murmur
Stumble
Move Forward

10. Is there any poetic device in the poem?
Rhyme
How to find Rhyme???????
Check for the sound of the last word the line in the stanza. e.g.
The trees inside are moving out into the forest
The sound in the last word is ‘est’
The forest that was empty all these days
The sound in the last word is ‘ays’
Where no bird could sit
The sound in the last word is ‘it’
No insect hide
The sound in the last word is ‘ide’
Since there is no proper sequence in the sound pattern so there is no rhyme in this stanza