NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Kaleidoscope Poetry Chapter 5 Trees

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NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Kaleidoscope Poetry Chapter 5 Trees can be found in this article with the download link. This poem is written by Emily Dickinson who is well known for her unconventional writing and the use of imagery. Another characteristic of her writing style is the use of excessive dashes and capital letters. The central theme of this poem is the trees in summer times.

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NCERT Solutions For Class 12 English Kaleidoscope Chapter 5


Trees Summary

The poem Trees includes seven stanzas with twenty-eight lines in total. Emily Dickinson uses various poetic devices to explain the trees on a summer day, for example- personifications, similes, and imagery. 

  • The poem begins with the description of the swaying tree with the wind.
  • In the second stanza, the poet describes how the musical sound of an unseen instrument is mesmerizing her.
  • In this third stanza, Emily Dickinson goes back to describing how the sun is playing hide and seek in the cloud and only shows his face whenever he feels like it.
  • The next two stanzas describe the lives on the earth and the wealth they have.
  • She concluded the poem by stating even after all these descriptions, she is unable to describe the beauty of such summer days.

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CBSE CLASS XII Related Questions

  • 1.
    Read the following poem ‘The Rain’ by Kamala Das :
    We left that old ungainly house
    When my dog died there, after
    The burial, after the rose
    Flowered twice, pulling it by its
    Roots and carting it with our books,
    Clothes and chairs in a hurry.
    We live in a new house now,
    And, the roofs do not leak, but, when
    It rains here, I see the rain drench
    That empty house, I hear it fall
    Where my puppy now lies.
    Alone..
    Based on your understanding of the poem, answer the questions given below:


      • 2.
        Why was Margayya's house known as 'Tooth Powder House'?


          • 3.
            Why did the long-tailed, black-faced langur advise the tiger to take great care to avoid going near a porcupine?


              • 4.
                Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
                Pity would be no more
                If we did not make somebody Poor;
                And Mercy no more could be
                If all were as happy as we.
                And mutual fear brings peace,
                Till the selfish loves increase:
                Then Cruelty knits a snare,
                And spreads his baits with care.
                He sits down with holy fears,
                And waters the ground with tears;
                Then Humility takes its root
                Underneath his foot.
                (The Human Abstract)


                  • 5.
                    Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
                    What needs my Shakespear for his honour’d Bones,
                    The labour of an age in piled Stones,
                    Or that his hallow’d reliques should be hid
                    Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
                    Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame,
                    What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name?
                    Thou in our wonder and astonishment
                    Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
                    (On Shakespear. 1630)


                      • 6.
                        What was the jungle superstition about how the tiger came to have the stripes and whom did he blame for it? Why did the tiger feel helpless in tackling the situation?

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