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Comparing Poems 'Global Warming ', Ruin And Beauty'

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Earth is home to many wonderful and exotic species, as well as our home. These species, including us, rely on their environment to find shelter and food. Unfortunately, their ecosystem is being destroyed by us. Some species are already at the risk of becoming extinct. One can wonder how far we will go and what would be the consequences of our actions. In fact, the poems “Global Warming”, “Ice Would Suffice”, “Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now”, “Ruin and Beauty”, and “Some Effects of Global Warming in Lackawanna County” all have the same theme. They all describe what might happen to our species and to the earth.
Jane Hirshfield wrote a short but meaningful poem called “Global Warming”. The poem is about how humans are not able …show more content…

For instance, take the lines 7-9, “…hominids have stood/for mere years/baffled brains atop battered shoulders”. These lines suggest that humans took a brutal hit in regard to population. It also can be that the “battle shoulders” can be the environment itself. The planet is in a rough shape, and “atop” of the “battle shoulders” are humans that cannot believe that the planet is in such a state. Another example of imagery in the poem is, “In a murky blanket of heavens” (10). “Heavens” means the sky, and “murky” means gloomy and dark. In other words, the environment that the humans live in is covered in a dark and gloomy …show more content…

The first stanza begins with a daunting line, “It’s so quiet now the children have decided to stop/being born…” (1-2). This line is saying that humans have stopped producing new generations. When the last person dies humanity dies. However, lines 13-14 state, “… Already/ seedlings erupt through cement”. This is suggesting that nature will blossom and survive. This implies that humans cannot survive without earth, however, the earth can and will survive without humans. In regard to form, the poem is broken down into stanzas that vary in different lengths. The length variance of the stanzas can be a reference to the vegetation size change throughout humanities lifetime. The reason behind this is that the poem starts up with two long stanzas, but taper down to short ones. Afterward, the last stanza is bigger. It shows that at the beginning of humanity there was a lot of vegetation, but humans started to remove most of the plants. When the humans started to decrease in population the vegetation started to

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