Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -“It has grown / Slowly consuming the earth,”—Bring out the significance of this line.
The line mentioned above is taken from the poem ‘On Killing a Tree’ where the irony regarding the killing of a tree is expressed by the poet. The growth of a tree is like the growth of a child. It slowly consumes the earth, eats and drinks from it, rises out of the soil, feeds upon the earth’s crust and absorbs innumerable years of sunlight, air and water. As a human being, it takes several years to grow and mature. Therefore the line mentioned above marks the growth and development of a tree that takes a long span of time. Insensitive human beings cut trees deliberately without thinking of its consequences.