Analysis of THE FRUIT BEARING TREE
The point here that l've reached
And exactly as l am..
With plenty of fruits, handsome and slender-made..
I know what lies ahead of me from you
And what is expected..
After being born and swept away
and scanned by the divine open- wind..
The Princess Spring did me so..
And the ingenious, resourceful Summer..
I am ashamed of my riches and beauty
I am afraid and l shiver to the thought
That invasions of rabid and barren people will come
and infertility..
When this unfortunate world
sees the view of True Loveliness
and the aura of Fertility...
You will stone me with rocks underneath
Persistently..as you only know..
Until you take what you want
With hatred and merciless savageness...
And l will fall to your knees
and into your hands..
-"Oh, how tasty he is and what a mature fruit he is..
God looks over us
the poor people"..
Oh, you'll laugh...
And my Soul will become
An ancient greek city
That Barbariousness looted..
I am here, sent by God,
To be offered as a trophy
For our own cruelty..
You can climb up my body
There where you have never seen..
High..with impetus..
Towards the chosen things of the Sky
l mean..
God shouldn't have done it
But still he did..
God knew something when he said:
"In this world
The good entity and the bad will live..
At the end of righteousness
The crooked things will start..
And at the bottom of Chosen Beings
Stupid mongs will give sprouts"..
And as you will be content
By the Good Juices and the Chosen Blood
You'll become Lords and Tyrants
And great glories you will experience...
While l..
As to give birth to these precious fruits..
I shed a million tears and experienced
such dreadful pain..
You will give me away to oblivion
Leaving me to beg for a little mercy
From the very frosty winter
Without even casting upon me
A suit jacket for my shoulders...
And many other things you can do..
And many other atrocities you will perform..
Whereas you can't give birth to fruits
And beauty for the sake of the people..
You can only lay the road
that was made
for the dreams of the world
with thorns..
And as for your own infertility..
Always a price will be given
So the fruit bearing trees
Shall pay you..
Anyway
the purpose of poverty
sanctifies all means..
And now hurt by all the strikes of your hunger..
Hurt by ingratitude
that l took from this world..
I want to shout..if l have a voice..
-"Mother Earth
You should have thought better
Before you gave birth to me
As a fruit bearing tree..."
Translated by
VASILIKI KOLLIOPOULOU KALAHANI
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111 0010111 11011100101 1111011111 011010 101010101 011001101 0101111 0001001010 11011110010 11010110101 10101100101011 00100 1101001 101111 001010100 11111101 11101 0111111 11001001 0111111 00111 11101101001111 11101 0110 111 011101 110110 1110 111111 11101010 110110 1111110 1111101 1100 010101101 11 110111 1111 1110111 011 0110000111 1011100 010111 0101011010 101111 0111110 1011000101 1011010 0110110100 11 111111101 11010100100 1101 11110110100 10111101010 10101010 011010011 01101110 010101111 0101001001101 01111111 0101011010 1110101 111 101101 11 011110100 1011110 101101 111 10 0101100 111 01111011110 111 111111 11111101 101 111110 0111111 101101 0101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,614 |
Words | 521 |
Sentences | 43 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 7, 10, 3, 8, 2, 7, 8, 5, 2, 2, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 84 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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