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- Theme: Destruction and Environment
- Setting
- I'm guessing you probably know what is the Amazon Desert, right?Well believe it or notIt was once called once called the Amazon Rain Forest
- Symbolism
- I'm sorry that our footprints became a sinkhole and not a garden
- The speaker talks of how the world had destroyed trees, caused and continued climate change, polluted the world and kept on saying to themselves that it was progress. They clearly didn't care about their destruction, and the Consequences came to ruin the future generations.
- Imagery
- The setting is established instantly be Ea in the first stanza as a near future, probably somewhere between 2050 and 3000, where due to people's arrogance and destruction, the world is in ruin. All the trees and plants are gone and destroyed. Nobody did anything to stop climate change, and many natural landmarks are gone or have changed intensely, such as the Amazon Rainforest, now the Amazon Desert. This destroyed, scary and chaotic world gives the message of the poem more impact.
- Speaker
- In this poem Ea uses the phrase I'm sorry that our footprints became a sinkhole and not a garden, meaning that they left behind destruction rather than something beautiful. And that a farmer would not look at the branches of a tree to see if it is dying, but the roots. This represents the fact that people don't skim the surface and then say it's over, they should keep on digging for a conclusion.
- Purpose: To Encourage People to make Change
- Ea allows you to see the changes the world is going through in the poem, by saying how things like the Amazon are now deserts and how you cannot swim in the ocean and showing how people wouldn't even know about trees. Some lines like these: Their homes were literally washed away Beneath their feet due to the rising sea levels, making a vivid image of what their lives would be like in Bangladesh.
- The speaker instantly shows sympathy for the following generations, knowing the direction the world would go would leave them a worse future. The poem is clearly supposed to be a note that he is writing for future generations to read. He is obviously aware of the many changes the world is having, weather it is climate change or deforestation. By the end of the poem, you can feel how he wants to make a change about this global disaster.
- Poem
- To Future Generations: SorryWe need change
- The purpose of the poem is understandable almost the moment you read the first line. Ea tries to show you that we have to make change, or for the future generations to come, the world will be left in chaos. There would be near to no trees, a completely polluted ocean and smoggy skies. The poem is quite simply encouraging people to make changes throughout the world, for the better of the future generations to come.
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