Analysis of Poem Trees by Joyce Kilmer
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Joyce Kilmer Trees is (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer s most popular poem and was first published in the
Poetry magazine, August 1913. It was later the title poem of a book.
This entertaining, if limited, short poem of six full rhyming couplets in which the first-person speaker praises the tree and then God for making it in the first place, uses personification and ironic contrast to make its point poems will never match trees, the work of God.
Only God can make a tree, something which the speaker could never do. This is why the tree is something of a miracle, to be wondered at. A mere poem comes nowhere near a tree and the poet is a fool despite the poem being the vital link, the vehicle of acknowledgement.
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Commentary: The little evergreen on Wiseman Blvd.
Rafael Castillo For the Express-News
Dec. 11, 2020
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This decorated humble tree brought a smile and lifted my spirits. I’m grateful to the folks who have been dutifully decorating it all these years.Rafael Castillo /For the Express-News
On tree-lined acreage at the corner of Wiseman Boulevard and Westover Hills sits a short, humble evergreen. It’s wrapped with golden garland interspersed with peppermint ribbons. Poinsettia leaves dot the tree with its bright red, lively emerald and golden Christmas ornaments. A silver star crowns the tip of the little spruce as if saying, “Merry Christmas!” Towering evergreens keep watch behind their tyke as it greets passersby and speeding motorists.