What is the summary of the poem The Axe in the Wood?

Answer 1

In Clifford Dyment's poem The Axe in the Wood, the narrator stops to watch someone chopping down an old tree. He mentions that it was visually appealing and he liked the rhythm and could see why people would look. He mentions also that he knows all the reasons that people give for chopping down old trees, and acknowledges the possible merit of those arguments, but that these still seems to be something really wrong chopping it down... something that old, that majestic, that has lived far beyond the lives of men, seems as tragic as a thousand human deaths.