 W.S.

MERWIN

PRESENTATION ON UNCHOOPING A TREE.

 GROUP MEMBERS.

• PESHAL KARKI
• BISHNU BISTA
• SAHIL AGHRARI
• YUGAL KARKI
• JEEVAN JAISHI
 CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION ABOUT AUTHOR

2. INTRODUCTION ABOUT TEXT
3. SUMMARY OF THE TEXT
4. THEME OF THE TEXT
 INTRODUCTION ABOUT AUTHOR
• W. S. MERWIN WAS BORN IN NEW YORK CITY ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1927.
• IN 1952 MERWIN'S FIRST BOOK OF POETRY, A MASK FOR JANUS, WAS PUBLISHED.
• IN THE 1980S AND 1990S, MERWIN'S WRITING INFLUENCE DERIVED FROM HIS INTEREST
IN BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY AND DEEP ECOLOGY.
• HE IS A PROLIFIC, LEADING AMERICAN WRITER WHOSE POETRY, TRANSLATIONS, AND PROSE
HAVE WON PRAISE OVER SEVEN DECADES.
• MERWIN IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTRIBUTORS TO POETRY IN THE EARLY
21ST CENTURY.
• TODAY, MERWIN LIVES ON LAND THAT WAS FORMERLY PART OF A PINEAPPLE PLANTATION,
ON THE NORTHEAST COAST OF MAUI.
 INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE TEXT

• IN THIS TEXT THE WRITER GIVES US SOME INSTRUCTIONS FOR REPAIRING A TREE THAT HAS
BEEN CHOPPED DOWN.
• THE ESSAY TELLS US TO PRESERVE THE ENVIRONMENT.
• ALL THE DIRECTIVES WHICH ARE SHARED BY THE AUTHOR ARE FALSE DIRECTIVES, WHICH CAN
NEVER BE TRANSLATED INTO PRACTICAL LIFE..
• INDIRECTLY, THE ESSAY SAYS THAT WE SHOULDN’T CUT DOWN THE TREES IF WE NEVER REPAIR
THEM.
 SUMMARY OF THE TEXT

• THE WRITER PRESENTS IMPOSSIBLE EXAMPLE TO CONVEY DEEP MEANING.

• HE INDIRECTLY SUGGESTS US THAT WE SHOULD PRESERVE THE NATURE.
• JOINING THE CHOPPED PARTS OF TREES REFERS TO THE NEW PLANTATION OF MORE TREES IN
THE OPEN FIELDS, WHICH ARE FULL OF STUMPS.
• EVERY PART OF TREES REFERS TO THE EVERY PARTS OF THE NATURE WHETHER THEY ARE SMALL
OR BIG.
• AS WE ARE ALSO THE CREATION OF THE NATURE, IT IS OUR DUTY TO MAINTAIN THE BALANCE
IN THE NATURE. .
• ACTUALLY WE ARE NOT DESTROYING THE NATURE BUT WE ARE DESTROYING OURSELVES AS
OUR LIVES TOTALLY DEPEND UPON THE NATURE.
• WE DON’T HAVE RIGHTS TO DESTROY THE NATURE
• THE WRITER’S IS APPEALING TO JOIN THE PARTS OF THE CHOPPED TREES, HE WANTS TO
REMIND HUMAN BEINGS ABOUT THEIR IMPORTANT WORKS TO BE DONE TO CONSERVE THE
GREENERY OF THE NATURE.
• WE CANNOT EVEN MAKE IT ALIVE ONCE IT IS CUT DOWN.
• WE HAVE TO FACE DEVASTATING RESULT DUE TO DEFORESTATION.
• WE CANNOT PUT THE LEAVES AND NESTS IN THEIR OWN PLACE.
• IT IS ONLY A KIND OF FEELING BUT CERTAINLY IT HAS MEANING.
• THE WRITER EMPHASIZES ON THE PRESERVATION OF THE NATURE.
• THE NATURE SHOULD BE PRESERVED AND THOSE PERSONS WHO CUT THE TREES MUST PLANT
SOME MORE IN REPLACEMENT.
• WHEN THEY SAVE AND PLANT THE TREES, IT IS UNCHOPPING A TREE.
• THE WRITER WARNS THAT IT IS EASY TO DESTROY BUT VERY HARD TO CREATE.
• HE FURTHER SAYS THAT LIFE OF A TREE AND HUMAN LIFE ARE THE SAME SO THEY SHOULD BE
PRESERVED WITH EQUAL EMPHASIS.
• THE WRITER WANTS TO SAY THAT OUR UNWISE CHOPPING OF THE TREES WILL LEAD US TO
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FOREST, ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND THE WHOLE NATURE.
• CHOPPING OF TREES IS JUST LIKE CHOPPING THE HUMAN EXISTENCE. THUS, WE SHOULD
STOP DEFORESTATION AND CONSERVE THE NATURE AND OUR EXISTENCE BY CONSERVING
TREES.
• NOT ONLY THE TREES WE SHOULD SAVE BUT ALSO SHOULD PROTECT THE HABITATS OF SOME
ANIMALS WHO LIVE IN TREES.
 THEME OF THE TEXT

• ABOUT THE PRESERVATION OF THE NATURE.

• REDUCTION OF DEFORESTATION.
• PROMOTING AFFORESTATION.
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