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Through the open window, a pale yellow butterfly shimmers into the hall for an instant, suggesting just how fleeting that moment might be. As he continues, he suggests that some poems are meant to be read in silence, so that one can go back to it again to reap its essence, but others are best heard out loud.

“You may not be able to get its full meaning, maybe you will just get 50% of it, but there’s a special pleasure in just listening to the sound of it,” he says.

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Sabu Said:


I am so very thankful to you that I could gather basic notes on Patel's "On Killing a Tree" when I was searching to find out the context of the poem. It is a typicl poem emenating from the mind of a Doctor-Artist-environmentalist-Poet.

Posted On 1/9/2009 8:33:34 AM