Poem: Trees NCERT Solutions | Class 12 English Kaleidoscope - Humanities/Arts PDF Download

Responding to the Poem 

Q1: What imagery does the poet use to delineate summer’s day more picturesquely than any painter could?
Ans: The poet uses depictions like the chirping of birds, insects humming, and wind playing through leaves, giving a beautiful and rhythmic background to the spectacular summer day. These observations depict the psalteries of summer where the poet has made the scenic summer more beautiful and picturesque.

Q2: What do you understand by ‘Psalteries of Summer’?
Ans: The wind flowing by the trees’ leaves, birds chirping in the sky, and bees humming around the poet bring a beautiful musical moment wherein nature being rhythmic displays a perfect summer day. ‘Psalteries of Summer’ is used as a metaphor to describe the cheerfulness of nature being musical.

Q3: In which lines are creatures attributed with human qualities? How does this add to the beauty of the summer’s day?
Ans: The line “There seemed to rise a tone, From Miniature Creatures” displays its attribution to human qualities. Wherein the gnats and bees, the miniature creatures make a musical stone with the wings beating and humming, giving the poet a happy satisfaction.

Q4: How would you explain the image of the ‘Hindered Flags’?
Ans: The ‘Hindered Flags’ is a metaphor used for the flowers raised high on the plant stem and spread an unforgettable fragrance. These flowers wave with elegance like flags.

Q5: Why are the pronouns referring to the Sun capitalised?
Ans: The sun is referred to as capitalized because it depicts a kingdom, the magnificence of the sun is described wherein he shines the brightest being a whole, and sometimes it is half, the sun also has an Estate of clouds that protects him for direct gaze.

Q6: Give examples from the poem to show that great poetry is a result of close observation of natural phenomena.
Ans: The lines: “There seemed to rise a Tune From Miniature Creatures” “The Sun shone whole at intervals – Then Half – then utter hid” “To let the Orchards grow” “A Bird sat carelessly on the fence – One gossiped in the Lane On silver matters charmed a Snake” explains that great poetry is a result of keen observation of a natural phenomenon, which enhances the poetry and let the readers get more involved in the poem.