Prepared By: - Nityanandesh Narayan TripathiPGT EnglishJawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya

The trees inside are moving out into the forestThe forest that was empty all these daysWhere no bird could sitNo insect hide

Annotation

The forest is cut. Now it is empty (Barren) where no bird or insect is found. But today the plants preserved in my house are moving out to reforest the jungle.

No sun bury its feet in shadowThe forest that was empty all these nightsWill be full of trees by morning

Annotation

Sun can not make shadow (Shade under the tree) because no tree is there in Jungle. But by morning the forest will be filled with trees.

All nights the roots workTo disengage themselves from the cracksIn the verandah floor.The leaves strain towards the glassSmall twigs stiff with exertionLong cramped boughs shuffling under the roofLike newly discharged patientsHalf dazed, movingIn the clinic doors.

AnnotationAll night the roots of the plants worked to come out. These plants are kept in verandah of poet’s house. The leaves are trying to break to glasses of the window so that they can get out. Small plants are tired and they can not move properly. They shuffle (mix up) with each other. They move half dazed (Half Sleeping) like a patients who have come out of doctor’s clinic.

I sit inside, doors open to verandaWriting long lettersIn which I scarcely mention the departureOf the forest from the house.

AnnotationI (The Poetess) is sitting inside her house and watching the departure of plants for reforestation. She writes a long letter (all her ideas about the destruction done to trees) in which she does not mention the departure of plants (because again people will know that forest is full of trees and they will start cutting them.)

The night is fresh, the whole moon shinesIn a sky still openThe smell of leaves and lichenStill reaches like a voice into the room.

AnnotationThe night is fresh the full moon is shining . The area of forest is filled with the smell of leaves (Of plants) and lichen (Moss). The sounds produced by these plants is filling the environment.

My head is full of whispersWhich tomorrow will be silent.Listen. The glass is breaking.The trees are stumbling forward Into the night. Wind rushes to meet them.

AnnotationThe poet is very happy to listen the whispers (The sound produced by plants while going out of her house). This sound will not be there when these plants would have gone. He also listens to the breaking sound of glass of window pane. The wind of the forest is also rushing (Happily blowing) to welcome the arrival of plants for reforestation

The moon is broken like a mirror,Its pieces flash now in the crownOf the tallest oak.

AnnotationThe moon which was seen clearly through the deforested Jungle is now looking broken (Look at the second picture where tree leaf is covering the shine of moon and the broken parts of moon is seen). This moon is shining at the top of the tall oak tree like a crown (The forest is now glorified).

Word MeaningDisengage Separate

Cracks Small openings

Strain Make effort to move

Twigs Small branches

Stiff Hard

Exertion Tiredness

Cramped Contracted

Boughs Cluster of Branches

Shuffle Dragging the feet, Jumble Up

Half – Dazed Half Sleeping

Scarcely Hardly,

Lichen Moss (In Hindi – ‘kaai’)

Whisper Low Voices, Murmur

Stumble Move Forward

Rhyme How to find Rhyme???????

Check for the sound of the last word the line in the stanza. e.g.

The trees inside are moving out into the forestThe sound in the last word is ‘est’

The forest that was empty all these daysThe sound in the last word is ‘ays’

Where no bird could sit

No insect hide

The sound in the last word is ‘it’

The sound in the last word is ‘ide’

Since there is no proper sequence in the sound pattern so there is no rhyme in this stanza