Personification is giving human qualities to inanimate
objects or plants and other animals. In the first stanza, the tree wears
the scarf. The scarf is the vine that is growing up the tree like a
python in the tree’s old age. The song “sung darkling from our tree” might be the wind
rustling through the branches and/or the leaves. Trees don’t ‘sing.’ This is
personification. Other examples of the personification of the tree are ‘the tree’s
lament’ and its ‘eerie speech,’ which could just be the speaker’s manifestation of the
tree’s pining it its old age or it could be the wind in the leaves or the creaking of an
old branch.
Another example is the waves kissing the shore.
Dutt personifies the tree because it represents the nostalgic link to her past and by
willing the immortality of the tree in the last stanza, she is also willing the
immortality of her memories, which includes she and presumably her departed loved
ones.
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