Question

2. Protect what has been given for free
Our waters, skies, wildlife and trees
For once they're gone don?
Consider yourself warned of that fatal day
a. What is 'free'?
b. What does the poet mean by the fatal day?
c. Do you think that the poet is being unnecessarily anxious? Why Why not?
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Appreciating the poem​

Answer 1

1. Free = not under control or in the power of another; able to act or be done as one wishes, not or no longer confined or imprisoned
2. By ‘fatal day’ the poet means that the day will come when we will always be deprived of all the resources that Mother Nature has bestowed on us
3. anxious because he is overthinking and reminding his bad days