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‘Christmas Trees’ by Robert Frost is a five-stanza poem that’s separated into uneven stanzas. The first is the longest, at thirty-one lines, the second is eleven lines, the third: one line, the fourth: two lines, and the fifth is sixteen lines long.
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Christmas Trees Lyrics. A Christmas Circular Letter. The city had withdrawn into itself. And left at last the country to the country; When between whirls of snow not come to lie. And...
In mid-January 1907 seven-year-old Lesley wrote a journal entry entitled “Papa Goes to See Santa Claus,” describing how, several days before Christmas, her father hiked off into the woods on their farm to get the tree, telling the children he was going to visit Santa.
The poem analyzes the Christmas tree on both a literal and figurative level. Literally, it describes the tree being dazzled with bright colors and decorations. Figuratively, it depicts the tree as a symbol that brings warmth, light, and mystery during the long, cold nights of winter.
Every December in Trafalgar Square in central London, a huge Christmas tree is put up, decorated and lit. Not many people know that this tree is a gift from the city of Oslo, and that a tree has been given each year for over seventy years. The first gift of a tree was in 1947 in thanks for British.
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The poem's theme is the importance of preserving the natural world. The speaker's decision not to sell his Christmas trees is a rejection of the commercialism of Christmas. The poem also suggests that the natural world is a source of beauty and inspiration.
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1. ) [1] The city had withdrawn into itself. And left at last the country to the country; To view the rest of this CommonLit text, please or . Lorem ipsum odor amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Hac integer vulputate platea montes magnis, lacinia habitasse. "Christmas Trees" by Robert Frost, 1916, is in the public domain.
