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In What Sense is the Tree ‘The Harvest of a Coming Age’? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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In what sense is the tree ‘the harvest of a coming age’?

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The future will see the tree in all its glory as a towering tree with a thick trunk which can be put to various uses by the future generations. The poet is here talking about transition from a tender youth to adulthood which is also a reference to the tree growing from a sapling into a tree.

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