Question
(i) Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest.
(ii) What picture do these words create in your mind: “… sun bury its feet in shadow…”? What could the poet mean by the sun’s ‘feet’?
Solution
(i) birds can't sit, insects can't hide, sun can't bury its feet in shadow
(ii) It means that the sun can't set settling its burning rays in the cool shadow of the forest. The poet refers to sun rays.
