The Eritrean saying goes “as the candle renders light while the name tells”; as the title “The Giving Tree” tells everything also. Silberstein explains in her poem “The Giving Tree” how motherhood is generous, kind, sensitive, selfless, loving and caring to her boy no matter what his age is unlike man’s mechanism.
First, Silberstein starts saying “…every day the boy would come to play/ swinging from the branches, sleeping in the shade” (lines 1-2). This part of the poem explains the relationship between the early stages of a child and his caring mother. Since a baby is dependent, he is usually attached to his loving mother and she lets him play around with gladness. The word “play” can mean so many activities such as giving him a bath, burping