Sunday 1 October 2017

Poem The Day the Bulldozers Came (Form 3) : Meaning

Stanza One
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Interpretation
1
The day the bulldozers came
The bulldozers came into the forest during the day
2
Rooks were building
Rooks (the black crows) were busy building their nests on the trees
3
Crazy egg baskets in the oaks;
4
Green flies sizzled by the pond
The flies were flying noisily in the pond area
5
And a cold-eyed toad
The emotionless toad was waiting to catch the flies.
6
Waited for them.

Stanza Two
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Line
Interpretation
1
The day the bulldozers came

Repetition of the title : to suggest disaster and destruction in the forest
2
Squirrels were scattering
The squirrels panicked and got scared. They ran up the tree trunks
3
Up tree trunks,
4
And leapt from branches
The squirrels jumped but the tree branches were no longer there because they had been chopped off.
5
That were hardly there.


Stanza Three
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Interpretation
1
The fox
The sleeping fox was disturbed
2
Stirred in his sleep
3
As the ground trembled.
When he felt the ground shake
4
‘Ha ha!’ he thought,
But he did not worry
5
‘I’m quite safe,
And felt that he was not in danger
6
Deep down in the Earth,
Because he was underground
7
No one can get me here.’
No danger or harm would come to him
8
Then the bulldozers came.
But the bulldozers were powerful machines and could destroy anything.

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