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

Stanza One
Line no.	Line	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
Line no.	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
Line no.	Line	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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