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Essay Archive - The Lost Trees
The Lost Trees
The double shame in man's war against man is the residual effect on
nature; an innocent , helpless bystander. The sense of potential
devastation is the prevailing tone throughout the poem, "Gathered by the
River," by Denise Levertov.
The spoliation caused by nuclear war is not limited to the loss of
human lives. Nature can take a comparable amount of time to recover from a
nuclear holocaust. The impact of war victims to humankind is negligible as
compared to years of recovery required to reinstate the slow-growing trees.
When Levertov notes, "the trees are not indifferent" (l 13), she is saying
that nature ....
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