Philip Larkin Group
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zero0master
Student
High School - 9th Grade
In the poem The Trees by Philip Larkin, what do the "rings of grain" show?
The Trees
The Trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in the rings of grain.
Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
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