Beech Timber
I need help on interpreting this poem?
Improved Farm Land
Tall timber stood here once, hee on a corn belt farm along the Monon.
Here the roots of a half-mile of trees dug their runners deep in the loam for a grip and a hold against wind storms.
Then the axemen came and the chips flew to the zing of steel and handle–the lank railsplitters cut the big ones first, the beeches and the oaks, then the brush.
Dynamite, wagons, and horses took the stumps–the plows sunk their teeth in–now it is first class corn land–omproved property–and the hogs grunt over the fodder crops.
It would come hard now for this half mile of improved farm land along the Monon corn belt, on a piece of Grand Prarie, to remember once it had a great singing family of trees.
PLEASE HELP ME INTERPRET THIS POEM. IF I DONT THEN I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PLAY BASEBALL
This is your assignment, so you give it some thought. I’ll get you started. The first part is just a description of some treed land being cleared so corn can be planted. The word “improved” is used repeatedly.
The last portion says that the land now to remember how it was once a great and beautiful forest.
It’s a sad poem about the loss of untouched land. When you write about this, think about the irony of the word “improved.”
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