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Trees (Emily Dickinson)

Jammu & Kashmir Board · Class 12 · English

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1. Poet and Poem at a Glance

  • Emily Dickinson is one of America’s quintessential poets of the nineteenth century.
  • She lived an introverted and hermetic life and published very few poems during her lifetime.
  • Her total poetic output was 1789 poems, and they were published posthumously.
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2. Main Idea and Theme

  • The poem presents a summer day as lively, musical, and full of delicate movement.
  • Nature is shown as active and beautiful, with trees, birds, snake, flowers, and sunlight forming one living scene.
  • The speaker suggests that the beauty of nature is beyond complete expression.
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3. Imagery and Symbols

  • The opening image, 'The Trees like Tassels hit – and – swung –', creates a picture of movement in the wind.
  • 'There seemed to rise a Tune' gives the trees a musical atmosphere.
  • 'Far Psalteries of Summer' compares summer sounds to a musical instrument.
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4. The Sun and Personification

  • The Sun is described with capitalised pronouns such as Himself and His.
  • This is a deliberate poetic device, not a grammar error.
  • The Sun 'shone whole at intervals', 'Then Half – then utter hid –'.

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The poem presents treesThe Sun is referred toThe poem describes the movementFlowers are shown as slitThe speaker says the natural sounds

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