Our Casuarina Tree by Toru Dutt Questions and Answers Marks 5
Short Essay Type Questions with Answe
Q.1. How does Toru Dutt introduce the tree in the poem Our Casuarina Tree?
Ans. The poetess sketches, with a fond attachment, the features of her dear casuarina tree of her garden-home, so majestic and grand. She details it with the climbing creeper, winding its rugged trunk, like a scarf, the clusters of crimson flowers, hanging from its boughs, on which birds and bees gather. The sweet song from a solitary bird, settling on it, seems to enchant the drowsy night.
The poetess relates, in a tone of intimacy, the sights and the song enjoyed by her out of her association with that tree. The tree itself , the sight of the gray sole baboon and its playful offspring’s on its boughs, the sweet tune of the kokilas, the slow move of the sleepy cows under the tree, the reflection of that massive tree on a big tank of the garden and blooming snow-white water-lilies hereon serve to delight her often.
Q. 2. Why is the casuarina tree a store house of memory to Toru Dutt in the poem Our Casuarina Tree?
Ans. The poetess affirms that the tree is so dear to her not merely for its grandeur and majesty but also for the happy memory of her beloved companions with whom she used to play (in her girlhood days) beneath its boughs. Though many years have passed, their sweet remembrance yet persists in her and affects her emotionally. But this is not all. The poetess seems to hear in the soft murmur (raised by its branches) its sad mourning that may reach far-off land.
The poetess admits feeling by how she was deeply touched and stirred by the memory of the tree, when she was away in some foreign country of France or Italy. She recalls her visualization of the majestic grand form of the tree, so much known to her from her early girlhood, of her native place from her foreign abode.
Q. 3. How does Toru Dutt try to immortalize the tree in Our Casuarina Tree?
Ans. The poetess proposes to dedicate a song in the honour of her beloved tree, so much in association with her dear mates, now no more. She believes that this will remain, along with other trees, as it is now, even after her own death. She has also a firm conviction that her poem, written in praise of her casuarinas tree will ever keep it alive in the memory of the world.
The pain of bereavement gets transformed into lofty sense of gratitude which assumes the notes of blessings for the tree for whom she wishes a long life that would place it among those very few trees which still stand upright in places like Borrowdale. These are the monumental trees under whose branches linger fear of untimely and unpredictabl happenings turns pale; Hope trembles, and Death , that fearsome power which cows down everyone across the world, appears weak and helpless as a skeleton and the all-potential time a mere shadow, an unsubstantial thing. In one stroke , the poetess invests the tree with a power that surpasses the power of the most frightful agents of destruction of human life.
Q. 4. But gallantly / The giant wears the scarf – About whom is is said? How does the speaker describe her experience related to ‘The giant’.
Ans. The referred line is taken from the famous poem, Our Casuarina Tree, by Toru Dutt.
The poetess says that a creeper climbs like a huge python, winding round and round the rugged trunk of the casuarina tree, indented deep with scars, up to its very summit near the stars, in whose embraces bound, no other tree could live. But the tree has wore it gallantly like a scarf.
The poetess relates, in a tone of intimacy, the sights and the song enjoyed by her out of her association with that tree. The tree itself, the sight of the gray sole baboon and its playful offspring’s on its boughs, the sweet tune of the kokilas, the slow move of the sleepy cows under the tree, the reflection of that massive tree on a big tank of the garden and blooming snow-white water-lilies hereon serve to delight her often.
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