Give and explain the figures of speech used in the poem "Our Casuarina Tree".

In
"," the first line uses zoomorphism, describing the vine in animal terms (as a
python). This is used to illustrate movement, making the tree seem more actively alive and also,
by implying movement, there is a subtle indication of the process of time. 

The line "the giant wears the scarf" is aof the tree. For the speaker, the
tree is a link to her past. In a way, she treats the tree like a person that can
"tell" (conjure) these memories as if it (the tree) could speak and tell these
stories. 

In the last line of the second stanza, the speaker uses ato
describe the water-lillies "like snow enmassed." 

In the third
stanza, the tree is personified again singing its "lament" which might be the wind
rustling through the leaves, a "dirge-like murmur" mourning the loss of the
past. 

Personification is used again in the next stanza. Examples are the
"eye of faith," "the waves gently kissed," and "the earth lay tranced
in a dreamless swoon." The speaker envisions nature (the tree, waves, the earth) as a
living and maybe even a conscious entity recalling (dreaming) links to the past.

Again the speaker personifies the tree, hoping, in the final stanza, that the tree will
be remembered like other favored trees, just as she remembers the people in her life. She
mentions Borrowdale and this is a reference to Wordsworth ode "Yew-Trees" another poem
praising trees. "Fear, trembling hope, and Death, the skeleton, and Time, the shadow;"
is from Wordsworth's poem. 

The Casuarina Tree is a symbol for life and
memory. Since trees tend to live much longer than humans, they are used in poetry as living
connections between generations of people.