🌳 The Trees

About the Poem

📖 Poem Notes

Adrienne Rich — The trees inside the house are moving their leaves toward the glass windows to escape to the open air. The forest has been depleted; the trees are leaving the house (which represents civilization/domesticity). Symbolic: women escaping domestic confinement; nature asserting itself against human control. Trees = women struggling for freedom from the house/home that limits them.

🔑 Key Points

  • Learn the central theme and message for exam
  • Note any literary devices: metaphor, personification, irony, symbolism
  • The poem is from the First Flight textbook