The setting of this poem is our planet. The speaker talks about how we left you with a mess of our planet, implying that the human kind has polluted the world and our planet is suffering because of human corruption. The constant mention of our planet infers that our planet is the setting.
Symbol
The theme of this poem is to take care of our planet and to think about your choices, and to realise that we are going astray. He explains the affects of climate change and pollution and states that if we don't all work together to save the environment we will be extinct.
Imagery
The speaker demonstrates a captivating poem and provides a very flowy poem with a bunch a rhyme. The author changes his tone of voice when voicing his poem weather it goes higher or lower, or changed intensity due to the situation.
Purpose
The poem is about saving the environment for our future generations, and to think before you act, meaning not to waste valuable natural resources. it is an apology to the future generation because of what we as a human race have done to the world/ecosystem/environment.
The author doesn't describe his words with adjectives, but he goes into depth with all of his sentences. He goes on and rambles about the important parts and makes lots of points about the same topic.
The purpose of this poem is to say sorry to future generations, and to inform people of what the human kind is doing to the planet, the author wants people to take more care with how we are treating our world and gives us an insight on how we are negatively affecting our world.