identify the mood of the poem awareness about or environment by Sylvia stults
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Broken bottles and charred pieces of glass
Wadded up newspapers tossed on the grass
Pouring of concrete and tearing of your trees
This is the environment that surrounds me?
Poisons and insecticides sprayed on our food
Oceans filing with thick oil crude
All sea life destined to a slow awful doom
These are the things we are to consume?
Mills pumping out iron expelling yellow fumes
Airlines emitting caustic gasses from fuels
Weapons of destruction tested at desolate sites
And this is the air that's to sustain life?
There has to be something that someone could do
Like raise the awareness to those around you
That if we don't heed the problem at hand
It's your life that is at stake, the destruction of man.
By: Sylvia Stults
Analysis:
The poem "Awareness about our environment" composed by Sylvia Stults is in the form of free verse. In this poem she describes all the things we have polluted as humans. It is quite devastating so hear all the things she says and asks because, we have polluted all these things and caused doom and even hurt animals. The message is that we should stop polluting and raise awareness to stop this "doom" the composer speaks of.
The emotion created by the poem is sorrow and disappointed that we are raising children like this and making the world like this. Language techniques the composer uses are rhetorical questions an example is, "This is the environment that surrounds me?" she uses it to highlight her disbelief and to draw attention. Rhyme is used in the first stanza which I think is also to draw attention. A pun is used when she says, "It's your life that is at stake, the destruction of man." because she means we are going to reach our doom but, also that we are causing the destruction ourselves. I think this is a very good poem because it makes you think about why we our doing this to our planet. It is also very alarming and true.
