Tagore's banyan tree

This poem is actually about a child's fantasy about a banyan tree when he was a child. He hopes he is a friend of this banyan tree.

However, the novelty of the poem lies in that it is not a traditional way to write how much he wants to be a friend of the banyan tree from the perspective of a child, but uses the words of a third person, as if an irrelevant person is expressing the feelings of the child like a banyan tree.

The banyan tree itself symbolically becomes the representative of all children's yearning and feelings.