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Dear Future Generations: Sorry

By Prince Ea

Rhythm

"We had the nerve to call this destruction, progress"

"This future I do not accept it, because an error does not become a mistake, until you refuse to correct it."

  • No particular beat or rhythm
  • Slam poetry

Sounds

"Cut them down with brutal machines, horrific, at a rate of 40 football fields every minute , that's 50% of all the trees in the world, all gone in the last 100 years"

Bangladesh

  • few sounds
  • Assonance and rhyme: "...too caught up in our own doings to do something. Sorry we listened to people who made excuses, to do nothing."
  • Assonance: "...and not to the branches of the government, not to the politicians run by corporations. We are the root, we are the foundation, this generation..."
  • Rhyme: "Which brings me great sorrow, because most of us today, don't even care about tomorrow." and "I'm sorry we doomed you and I'm sorry we didn't find another planet in time to move to."

"Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct"

"I'm NOT sorry...

We CAN redirect this."

Imagery

  • similies, personification, oxymorons and allusions
  • simile: "Like a marriage gone wrong, we didn't know what we had until it was gone."
  • Play on words: "We must globally warm our hearts and change the climate of our souls"

Language

  • simple and casual but has a very important message
  • directed towards the everyday person
  • Allusions: "Hey Fox News, if you don't think climate change is a threat.... and Sara Palin, you said that you love the smell of fossil fuels..."

Dear Future Generations: Sorry

Poem by Prince Ea, Analyzed by Asha Mortel

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