Question

The poem has picturesque expressions. They make the poem lively. Pick out such expressions from the extract.

Answer 1

"And then they came to its massive trunk"

This line captures an image of a tree with a huge trunk in our minds.

"We watched in terror and fascination this slaughter
As a raw mythology revealed to us its age"

These lines bring the expressions of terror and fascination on the faces of the people witnessing the killing of the tree.

"Where there are no trees except the one
Which grows and seethes in one's dreams, its aerial roots
Looking for ground to strike."

This line brings the image of a tree in one's dreams, where it's growing with anger and is waiting for an opportunity to take its revenge "looking for ground to strike".