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English Experts, Please answer. 
Read this excerpt from the poem "The Tress" by  Adrienne Rich and answer the question below
I sit inside, doors open  to the veranda
writing long letters
In which  I scarcely mention the departure

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In evoking the trees’ “strain,” the poem demonstrates the unsuitability of language itself as a greenhouse or container of nature.  The speaker is a witness to the trees’ exodus, but distances herself from participating in the making of something out of the spectacle. She “sit[s]” and “writ[es]” but not poems, “long letters,” in which she “scarcely mention[s] the departure / of the forest.”  
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