Quotes and annotations

“ she has been laid waste”

‘she’ (pronoun) → personified nature =mother nature, shows feelings and hurt

“all hopes of Proteus rising from the sea

have sunk he is entombed in the waste

we dump.”

‘sunk’ + ‘dump’ → rhyming words to show that nature is going down

‘Proteus’ → gone and buried, links to the fact that we have destroyed the oceans in the ‘waste we dump’

‘entombed’ → a tomb is a place to die

‘we’ (pronoun) → shows that we are to blame

‘all hopes of Proteus rising from the sea

have sunk he is entombed in the waste’ → metaphor for dead imagination

enjambement → carries on the line, natures is just about hanging on

hopes of humanity have faded

“while insatiate man moves in for the kill.

Poetry and piety have begun to fail,”

‘piety’ → faithful and loyal and religion

‘fail’ → we are failing our planet

‘insatiate’ → shows greed and how we never stop mining the planet and how we are never satisfied

poet is implying that humanity always wants more

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