Elm Trees

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Elm Trees In Gabriel Okara s - poem Snowflakes Sail Gently Down the elm trees play an important symbolic role They stand silently in the cold winter tired and bare The poet writes fall lightly lightly on the winter-weary elms It shows how the trees suffer under winter s weight but still remain a living part of nature s calm beauty and patience Symbol Of Weariness And Endurance The elm trees are described as winter-weary that means they are tired after facing the long cold season Yet they stand firm under the snow Their patience shows how nature quietly tolerates pain and hardship The poet uses them to express human struggle and strength Image Of Sorrow And Mourning The poet compares the bending branches to grief-stricken mourners This image makes the trees look like people who are bowing in sadness The elm trees share the sorrow of the world Their

bending shape becomes a picture of silent grief and respect for life and death Connection With Death And Peace The elm trees are covered with a white funeral cloth This image turns them into part of a peaceful burial scene The snow gives them rest after the pain of winter Through them the poet shows that death in nature is not painful but calm and gentle like sleep Reflection Of Nature s Prayer In the last stanza the poet sees the trees bending like white-robed Moslems salaaming at evening prayer The elm trees now become symbols of faith and devotion Their movement in the wind looks like an act of prayer It shows that nature itself worships in silence and peace The elm trees stand for weariness patience sorrow and faith They link human emotion with nature s calm strength Gabriel Okara shows through them that even in silence and pain nature prays endures and remains full of quiet beauty

The Snowflakes Sail Gently Down

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