After reading and analyzing the brief twelve lines of this poem we believe that it is a religious poem. Kilmer gives praising attributes to the tree as if it were praising God. This might be explains that trees are lovelier than a poem because any fool can write a poem, but only God can create a tree. The poem celebrates the world that the Christian God created and wonders over its vast complexity. The speaker knows, very clearly and fully, that he'll never see/write a poem as “lovely as a tree”.

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