Tree by The Umpqua

by Michele Avanti

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Tree by The Umpqua

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Michele Avanti

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Photograph - Photograph

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Tree by The Umpqua, photograph by Michele Avanti

The rolling hills at the south end of the South Umpqua River are beautiful and this wonderful tree greets people right off Highway 5. Big, beautiful, and still green in early October before frosts arrive.

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Under the greenwood tree a song by William Shakespeare
(from, As You Like It)

Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.

Who doth ambition shun
And loves to live i' the sun,
Seeking the food he eats,
And pleased with what he gets,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.

"Trees" is a lyric poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. Written in February 1913, it was first published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse that August and included in Kilmer's 1914 collection Trees and Other Poems.[1][2][3] The poem, in twelve lines of rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter verse, depicts a feminine personification of a tree pressing its mouth to the Earth's breast, looking at God, and raising its arms to pray.
Kilmer is most remembered for "Trees", which has been the subject of frequent parodies and references in popular culture. Kilmer's work is often disparaged by critics and dismissed by scholars as being too simple and overly sentimental, and that his style was far too traditional and even archaic.[4] Despite this, the popular appeal of "Trees" has contributed to its endurance. Literary critic Guy Davenport considers it "the one poem known by practically everybody."[5] "Trees" is frequently included in poetry anthologies and has been set to music several times including a popular rendition by Oscar Rasbach, performed by singers Nelson Eddy, Robert Merrill, and Paul Robeson.
The location for a specific tree as the possible inspiration for the poem has been claimed by several places and institutions connected to Kilmer's life among these are Rutgers University, the University of Notre Dame, and towns across the country that Kilmer visited. However, Kilmer's eldest son, Kenton, declares that the poem does not apply to any one tree that it could apply equally to any. "Trees" was written in an upstairs bedroom at the family's home in Mahwah, New Jersey that "looked out down a hill, on our well-wooded lawn."[6][7] Ironically, Kenton Kilmer stated that while his father was "widely known for his affection for trees, his affection was certainly not sentimental the most distinguished feature of Kilmer's property was a colossal woodpile outside his home.

"Trees" (1913) by Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

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