In the poem"I am the land, the speaker is patient yet assertive.substantiate in your own words.
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"I Am The Land" is a short poem in which the poet has personified land and it underlines the fact that man tries to dominate land, though he doesn't own it. He takes pride in possessing the land, buys and sells it. The land waits patiently. When someone plants trees, grass or when children dance on it, the land feels a pleasurable tickle. However, the land is anguished when the man tries to make boundaries using wires and fences. The poem ends with a thought-provoking stanza that questions 'Can you fence the planet earth?'
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The poem I am the land is written by Marina de Bellangenta
Explanation:
The poem ‘I Am the Land’ makes a powerful statement against man’s different ways of exploitation of the land. As a builder, as a consumer, as an urbanite and as a warmonger man continuously takes the land as his own and ill-treats it. The land watches everything patiently and waits for things to change. The land on and off has hopes for better things as good sensitive man plants and brings life to the land. When the land thus comes to life with trees, fruit, and grass, it’s rejoicing time for all. Children dance and someone sings. But the joy does not last. Man, in his role as a warmonger, chokes the land. But the land is resilient. It waits even now. But now it is assertive. It tells a man that he cannot fence the planet earth. The land continues to wait. But this time it waits to see if man has taken the cue to change for the better. If a man still exhibits no common sense, it would be his lot to suffer.