“ But not because of its magnificence Dear is the Casuarina to my soul” –Explain / What are the childhood memories of the poetess attached to the tree?

“ But not because of its magnificence 

Dear is the Casuarina to my soul” –Explain 

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What are the childhood memories of the poetess attached to the tree? 

Answer: The poetess Toru Dutt describes a casuarina tree situated in her house garden in her poem “Our Casuarina Tree”. She starts the poem with its physical description and magnificent size. Later she informs us that the tree is dear and special to her not for its huge size but for the childhood memories attached to tree. She informs us that under the boughs of that tree, she had played, spent with her beloved sister, brother and companions in childhood. Now after a long time, those companions are not alive, but those memories are still alive in her mind through the presence of that tree. So the poetess is so much emotionally attached to the tree that even she can feel and hear the murmur sounds of the tree when she is very far from her native land and this fills her eyes full of warm tears.