{"id":167,"date":"2020-04-23T08:39:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T08:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/?p=167"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T04:23:42","slug":"abridgment-of-grand-climbs-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/2020\/04\/23\/abridgment-of-grand-climbs-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Abridgment of Grand Climbs a tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grandma Climbs A Tree is a nostalgic lovely poem of Ruskin Bond.He is the best Anglo-Indian English writers in India.He got many Indian awards for his outstanding literary work. The poem is well built with his spontaneous nostalgic emotions which really inspires readers alone\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grandma &amp; Her Genius | Karnataka State | 10th Standard | English Second Language | Abridgment\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fu-ZiZbv-fY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em><br>My grandmother was a genius. You&#8217;d like to know why?<br>Because she could climb trees. Spreading or high,<br>She&#8217;d be up their branches in a trice. And mind you,<br>When last she climbed a tree, she was sixty-two.<br>Ever since childhood, she&#8217;d had this gift<br>For being happier in a tree than in a lift;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The poem \u2018Grandma Climbs a Tree\u2019 sketches Ruskin Bond\u2019s love for his family and his nostalgia . In this poem, he tells us about his grandmother\u2019s passion for climbing trees from a very young age due to her brother which kept her so active and quite different from others till her age of sixty-two. The first stanza has the rhyming words : why-high. You-two. Gift-lift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><br><em>And though, as years went by, she would be told<br>That climbing trees should stop when one grew old-<br>And that growing old should be gone about gracefully-<br>She&#8217;d laugh and say,&#8217;Well, I&#8217;ll grow old disgracefully,<br>I can do it better.&#8217; And we had to agree;<br>For in all the garden there wasn&#8217;t a tree<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br>As she grew old, she was advised not to climb but she did not pay her attention to this kind of advice. she simply laughed and neglected them .her reaction shows that she is a kind arrogant or self esteemed old woman of sixty two. there was no single tree in the garden that was being climbed by her. The rhyming words of this stanza : told old. gracefully- disgracefully. Agree- tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><br><em>She hadn&#8217;t been up, at one time or another<br>(Having learned to climb from a loving brother<br>When she was six) &#8211; but it was feared by all<br>That one day she&#8217;d have a terrible fall.<br>The outcome was different- while we were in town<br>She climbed a tree and couldn&#8217;t come down.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br>She hadn&#8217;t been up, at one time or another because it was her childhood hobby learnt by her dear loving brother. anyway everything has its own limit. one day when they were in town she was alone at home, she climbed a tree, but could not come down. This was what a kind of downfall of her geniuses that shocked her physically and mentally. The rhyming words of this stanza : another-brother. All &#8211; fall. Town -down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><br><em>After the rescue,<br>The doctor took Granny&#8217;s temperature and said,<br>&#8216;I strongly recommend a quiet week in bed.&#8217;<br>We sighed with relief and tucked her up well.<br>Poor Granny! For her, it was like a brief season in hell.<br>Confined to her bedroom, while every breeze<br>Whispered of summer and dancing leaves.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br>She was rescued from the tree top. After that she fell ill the doctor was called; he took her temperature and advised her bed rest for a week. Everyone felt relieved that doctor\u2019s advice would keep granny\u2019s away from tree-climbing. But the granny grew miserable lying in the bed. She felt that it was a solitary confinement There is no doubt she was missing the enchanting beauty of summer. The rhyming words of this stanza : said-bed. well-hell. breeze-leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><br><em>But she held her peace till she felt stronger.<br>Then sat up and said,&#8217; I&#8217;ll lie here no longer!&#8217;<br>And she called for my father and told him undaunted<br>That a house in a treetop was what she now wanted.<br>My Dad knew his duties. He said, &#8216;That&#8217;s all right \u2013<br>You&#8217;ll have what you want, dear. I&#8217;ll start work tonight&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Far a while she kept quite herself then She sat up on her bed and declared herself that she would not be confined to bed any longer. She called Bond\u2019s father and instructed him to build tree-house for her in the treetop. The dutiful dad gave assurance to fulfill granny\u2019s wish who started his work of building tree hose for his dear mother that night. The rhyming words of this stanza : stronger-longer. undaunted \u2013 wanted. right-tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><br><em>With my expert assistance, he soon finished the chore:<br>Made her a tree-house with windows and a door.<br>So Granny moved up, and now every day<br>I climb to her room with glasses and a tray.<br>She sits there in state and drinks sherry with me,.<br>Upholding her right to reside in a tree.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br>the poet also helped in the deed of building a beautiful treetop house with windows and doors for his granny. The granny moved into the treetop house. The poet took her meals up the treetop house. She had a wonderful time living in the treetop house having Sherry with the poet. The rhyming words of this stanza : chore-door. day-tray. me-tree.<br>This poem by Ruskin\u2019s Bond describes his granny\u2019s love for trees poetically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The poet begins his poem with her \u2018geniuses\u2019\u2019 as she could climb any kind of tree easily. She had learnt it from her brother when she was six; she had been climbing trees since then. But actually she never fell physically This poem shows the unconditional love Bond has towards his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grandma &amp; Her Genius | Karnataka State | 10th Standard | English Second Language | Abridgment\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fu-ZiZbv-fY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaAvyPv23n3XL8kpGZ2d\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-1.png?resize=1024%2C341&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-1.png?resize=1024%2C341&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-1.png?resize=300%2C100&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-1.png?resize=768%2C256&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3-1.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandma Climbs A Tree is a nostalgic lovely poem of Ruskin Bond.He is the best Anglo-Indian &hellip; <a title=\"Abridgment of Grand Climbs a tree\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/2020\/04\/23\/abridgment-of-grand-climbs-a-tree\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abridgment of Grand Climbs a tree<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/CW-English.png?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texpertssolutions.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}