Performance Task #4 - Directions: Recite the poem "Trees" by Jaya list down the personification and give its meaning.
Trees Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray:
A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair:
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.
1. What is the theme of the poem?
2. Explain how the tree lifts her arms to pray.
3.
What is the tone of the poem?
4. In second stanza, which personification signifies that the trees need water and nutrients from the ground or soil?
5. When a healthy tree "looks at God all day, and lifts her leafy arms to pray," what were the steps that the gardener did?​