Don’t Cut Down The Trees, Brother Woodcutter Four Levels and Question Answers
Four Levels of Don't Cut Down The Trees, Brother WoodCutter 
BalKrishna Sama
- Balkrishna Sama (1902-1981)
- Translated by Michael Hutt
1. LITERAL COMPREHENSION : This poem ‘Don’t Cut Down The Trees, Brother Woodcutter’ is composed by the most versatile Nepali poet Balakrishna Sama. The central idea of the poem is that trees are of utmost importance for living beings. So, they need to be conserved.
The poet has tried to portray the significant role of tree in human being’s life by personifying it. He has given the attributes of a mother to it. He appeals his fellow beings not to cut down the tree since they are our dead mothers. They are dead in the sense that they cannot speak and make complaint o our misbehavior to them. Instead, they quietly perform the motherly duties. They always protect us from Sun and rain; provide us shade, shelter, fruits and flowers. We enjoy climbing on their branches. They caress us through cool breeze and express their love and care to us. They are always worried about us. They cannot speak but weep silently oozing sap when we cut them.
In winter, we make ourselves warm making fire using firewood that they provide us and while we are asleep on our cozy beds, trees guard us outside with the veil of frost. Despite the uneasy chill weather, they ceaselessly protect us and become happy by recalling our childhood days that we passed with them. They cannot express their emotions and feelings to us. They only wait for the spring to be close with us. As soon as spring begins, they call us to play with them by spreading their branches. The poet urges us not to cut those branches.
2.INTERPRETATION :
In this poem, the poet is trying to emphasis on the importance of trees . It provides us oxygen but we are cutting down it. People are cutting the trees in present but they are not thinking about next generation. They does not care about its harmful impact to the human beings. Trees are most important things for human survival.
3.CRITICAL THINKING :
The poem "Don't cut Down the Trees, Brother Woodcutter" has beautifully presented the importance of trees. Trees are like our mothers. We should not cut down it. However, Some of the ideas presented in this poems are not common to cover all sorts of ecological parts. For example, those who live in hot place do they find frost on the top of the trees during winter?
4.ASSIMILATION :
After reading this poem I came to know the value of trees in our life.It provides oxygen by which we human beings are living in his earth. Therefore we should not cut the trees but save them . Trees are like our own mother.So we should protect them.
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Question Answers of Don't Cut Down The Trees, Brother Woodcutter
Q.1.Why do you think the poet calls the trees as “dead” mothers?
Or why do you think the poet compares the tree with dead mother?
ANSWER :I think the poet calls the trees as "dead" mothers because the trees cannot speak and make complaint to our misbehavior. Instead, they quietly perform the motherly duties. They protect us from sun and rain; provide us Shade, shelter, fruits and flowers.
Q.2.Describe the winter scene as painted in the poem “Don’t Cut Down the Trees, Brother Woodcutter”.
ANSWER : In winter, we make ourselves warm making fire using firewood that they provide us and while we are asleep on our cozy beds, trees guard us outside with the veil of frost. Despite the uneasy chill weather, they ceaselessly protect us and become happy by recalling our childhood days that we passed with them.
Q.3.What are the motherly duties enumerated in the poem “Don’t Cut Down the Trees, Brother Woodcutter”.
ANSWER : The motherly duties enumerated in the poem "Don't cut Down the Trees, Brother woodcutter" are that they always protect us from negative or harmful things, they provide us food, they always love and care us, they are worried about us, they protect, support and nourish us.
Q.4.Explain the line, “They pass the night dreaming of our sunshine childhoods.”
ANSWER : The line, “They pass the night dreaming of our sunshine childhoods” means in the winter while we are asleep on our cozy beds, they (trees) ceaselessly protect us and become happy by recalling our childhood days that we passed with them.
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