Unchopping a Tree

UNCHOPPING A TREE
Written by: W.S Merwin
Major theme:- to encourage to do afforestation and decrease random deforestation by showing the impossibility of re-chopping of tree after unchopping it.
This essay is a plea against deforestation. The essayist talk’s about unchopping or joining a tree which has been cut down into small pieces. The writer tells us to unchop or join all the parts of the tree place the tree where it was standing before we cut it.
This essay is pseudo directive, it has a meaning different from its surface meaning. The essay surface tells the thing but actually it want to suggest something else. In other word the apparent meaning of this essay is different from its real meaning .On the surface level the essay talk’s about unchopping a tree which has been cut down but inherently the essay are used against deforestation and please us to conserve nature.
In the essay the writer suggest that we should conserve the tree. We chop down the tree very easily but if we are asked to unchop or join all the parts of a chopped tree we can’t accomplish that task. The writer by asking us to unchop a tree is making us realize how difficult it is to grow a tree. He suggests that we should not chop down a tree because it is impossible to unchop it again.
The essay is the persuasive essay in which the essayist speaks to us directly and pursuits us to conserve the nature. This essay is the defense of nature preservation.


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Unchopping a Tree
-W. S. Merwin

In the essay “Unchopping a Tree”, the writer presents impossible example to convey deep meaning. Joining the chopped parts of trees refers to the new plantation of more trees in the open fields, which are full of stumps. Every part of trees refers to the every parts of the nature whether they are small or big. Each and every parts of nature is important. As we are also the creation of the nature, it is our duty to maintain the balance in the nature. We don’t have rights to destroy the nature. Actually we are not destroying the nature but we are destroying ourselves. Our lives totally depend upon the nature. Through the writer’s appeal to join the parts of the chopped trees, he wants to remind human beings about their important works to be done to conserve the greenery of the nature.
Unchopping a tree is impossible. It is only a kind of feeling but certainly it has meaning. The writer emphasizes on the preservation of the nature. The nature should be preserved and those persons who cur the trees must plant some more in replacement. When they save and plant the trees, it is unchopping a tree. The writer warns that it is easy to destroy but very hard to create. He further says that life of a tree and human life are the same so they should be preserved with equal emphasis. Not only the trees we should save but also should protect the habitats of some animals who live in trees.
The writer tries to persuade us how to work hard to bring the chopped tree into the original situation, which is not really possible. When a tree is felled down, there is no way to bring it into its original condition. But its place can be replaced with more trees, which we plant. Trees are also the important parts of the ecosystem as other living creatures. We should think of conservation of such trees instead of deforestation for the protection of the ecosystem.