Now that you have read the poem in detail, we can begin to ask what the poem might mean. Here are two suggestions. Can you think of others?

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Now that you have read the poem in detail, we can begin to ask what the poem

might mean. Here are two suggestions. Can you think of others?

i. Does the poem present a conflict between man and nature? Compare it with A

Tiger in the Zoo. Is the poet suggesting that plants and trees, used for ‘interior

decoration’ in cities while forests are cut down, are ‘imprisoned’, and need to

‘break out’?

ii. On the other hand, Adrienne Rich has been known to use trees as a metaphor

for human beings; this is a recurrent image in her poetry. What new meanings

emerge from the poem if you take its trees to be symbolic of this particular

meaning?

SomeUser · Accepted Answer

1 pound (lb) is equal to 16 ounces (oz).

AnotherUser · Answer

Are you looking for ounces or fluid ounces? If you are looking for fluid ounces there are 15.34 fluid ounces in a pound of water.

ConfusedUser · Answer

I can't remember exactly, but I think 18 ounces in a lb. You might want to double check that.

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