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Joyce Kilmer


 

Joyce Kilmer (full name: Alfred Joyce Kilmer, December 6, 1886July 30, 1918) was an American journalist and poet; his best-known work is "Trees". The poem is notable for its anthropomorphism: the tree in the poem presses its mouth to the earth's breast and looks at God and raises its leafy arms to pray. The poem was given a musical setting that was quite popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

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