(ii) What does the poet compare their branches to?

(i) Where are the trees in the poem? What do their roots, their leaves, and their twigs do?

(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?’

(i) Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest?

Thinking About Language. Write a page — about three paragraphs — on one of the following topics : Are you concerned about traffic and road safety? What are your concerns? How would you make road travel safer and more enjoyable?

Thinking About Language. Write a page — about three paragraphs — on one of the following topics : Have you made a journey that was unforgettable in some way? What made it memorable?