I felt that as a reader you could feel the growth and hope that came from the poplar tree. HD walks around the work when she speaks: “The poplar shines on the hill. The poplar extends, deeply rooted among the trees. It shows how elsewhere there is growth and what I believe could represent positivity and hope. There are different words that are used in the second half of the play, there is “clear on the hill”, “the poplar spreads”. This word choice is more positive when the poet uses “bright” instead of “black seeds.” We can also see the difference between in the first part, HD uses "shrivelled" and in the second part, "spread out". All of these elements are opposites from start to finish. When I was reading this poem, I thought that maybe HD was trying to portray someone or something in a dark place, but he could still see the good. The reason I think it would be someone who is already in a bad situation is because she says, "but far beyond the spent fruit pods and blackened mint stalks", showing that 'she's already in this dark place, looking towards this. poplar growing. Another example would also be in the last two stanzas when she says, “While I perish on the way among the crevices of the rocks.” Rocks are a hard, dull, cold object in my opinion, so I could see that this would represent the wrong place for the poet to be.