Report to wordsworth is a poem written by Boey Kim Chen, which deals with human destruction of nature and mans indifference towards this.
Report to wordsworth
Report to wordsworth is a poem written by Boey Kim Chen, which deals with human destruction of nature and man’s indifference towards this. It is an answer to the famous poet William Wordsworth. Wordsworth was born and lived most of his life in the rural northwest of En gland known as the Lake District. He was a romantic poet, who saw in nature and emblem of God, and was against human’s destruction of it..
In the first line, Cheng invocate Wordsworth, and makes reference to the environmental problems. Cheng explains Wordsworth what is the state of nature in this modern wordls, making reference to the smog , ahi tiro frase, and that the flower don’t grow any more. Boey uses classical allusions, like Proteus and Triton. Wordsworth presented them like very powerful gods, buth Cheng presents them as Gods that lost their powers. The can not expect proteus to rise, because even him is buried in the sea. And as WORDWORTH WAS EXPECTING to hear the musical sound from the sea, he says that no sound is produced With the word “insanate” he is making reference to the modern man, which is ambicious, and kill nature. By saying that poetry and piety began to fail, he is saying that in the past they prevented to destroy the world by relying ont his things.In the last coupley, Cheng is saying that we are being warned.
