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To express the pain through which the tree suffered and he wants to equate the life of a tree with the life of a human being.

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Explanation:

The poet uses the expression 'to kill' rather than 'to cut' as he wants to equate the life of a tree with the life of a human being. ... After cutting the tree the different parts of the tree like bark, twigs will grow to their former size if left unchecked