Question

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follows:

.....long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof

like newly discharged patients

half-dazed, moving

to the clinic doors.

Why does the poet use this comparison ?

Answer 1

The poet uses this comparison to show that just how patients are held up in hospitals desperately waiting to return home, half-dazed from medications and recovery of the illness, in the same way, the trees were held captive and are now trying to make their way back to the forest.