And what better way to express something’s beauty than with a poem? Poems and songs can convey a huge wave of emotion for something and poems in particular can make you feel a deep connection to the topic at hand. The poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier by Craig Perez puts that beautiful emotion in words by describing a small part of nature and how we may lose it.
“They explored the poles
for offshore drilling.
Once, we blocked them,
In that we understood
The risk of an oil spill
For a glacier.
XII
The sea is rising.
The glacier must be retreating.
XIII
It was summer all winter.
It was melting
And it was going to melt.
The glacier fits
In our warm-hands.”
He spends most of the poem explaining the beauty of the glacier and breaks the reader’s heart when he talks about how due to global warming making the earth increasingly warm (which is what the line “It was summer all winter.” means) the glacier was always melting and “... it was going to melt.” The poem evokes an emotion of sadness that is similar to losing a loved one, because it is losing a loved one. The earth is something beautiful that is a part of all of our lives and losing just a piece of that, just a tiny bit of the earth, can affect all of us in a negative way.
Some Effects of Global Warming in Lackawanna County by Jay Parini. Without syntax there is no immortality,says my friend,who has counted beads along a stringand understood that time iswater in a brookor words in passage,caravans amid the whitest dunes,a team of horses in the mountain trace.
There is always movement, muttering,in flight to wisdom,which cannot be fixed. The kingdomcomes but gradually,breaking word by wing or day by dream. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens) by Craig Santos Perez. Guam is considered the SPAM® capital of the world.
On average, each Chamorro consumes 16 tins of SPAM® each year, which is more per capita than any country in the world. Headline: Guam Struggles to Find Its Roots From Beneath Growing Piles of SPAM®. Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan have the only McDonald's restaurants that feature SPAM® on the menu. I went to the "World's Largest K-Mart" in Guam and I was amazed at the SPAM® display…it was like a whole "Wall of SPAM®. " SPAM® has a place not only in the stomachs of Guam's people, but in our hearts as well. Ice Would Suffice by Risa Denenberg. Lil Dicky - Earth. Youtube.