NCERT Solutions Class 7 English (Honeysuckle)
The NCERT Solutions in English Language for Class 7 English (Poetry) (Honeysuckle) Poem – 5 Trees has been provided here to help the students in solving the questions from this exercise.
Poem – 5 (Trees)
Trees are for birds.
Trees are for children.
Trees are to make tree houses in.
Trees are to swing swings on.
Trees are for the wind to blow through.
Trees are to hide behind in ‘Hide and Seek.’
Trees are to have tea parties under.
Trees are for kites to get caught in.
Trees are to make cool shade in summer.
Trees are to make no shade in winter.
Trees are for apples to grow on, and pears;
Trees are to chop down and call, “TIMBER-R-R!”
Trees make mothers say,
“What a lovely picture to paint!”
Trees make fathers say,
“What a lot of leaves to rake this fall !”
– SHIRLEY BAUER
Working with the Poem
1. What are the games or human activities which use trees, or in which trees also ‘participate’?
Answer – The games in which trees also ‘participate’ are hide and seek, playing on swings, climbing on trees, etc.
2.
(i) “Trees are to make no shade in winter.” What does this mean? (Contrast this line with the line immediately before it.)
Answer – It means that there are also those trees that give no shade and so it’s a pleasure to be with them during winter.
(ii) “Trees are for apples to grow on, or pears.” Do you agree that one purpose of a tree is to have fruit on it? Or do you think this line is humorous?
Answer – Yes. It is indeed true that one important purpose of a tree is to have fruit on it. Thus this line is not humorous.
3. With the help of your partner, try to rewrite some lines in the poem, or add new ones of your own as in the following examples.
Trees are for birds to build nests in.
Trees are for people to sit under.
Now try to compose a similar poem about water, or air.
Answer – Air is for people to breathe in.
Air is for kites to fly high in the sky.
