English- Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now

Who is the speaker writing to?

a person 50 years from now

What do you thin the poem is about?

future in which the environment is destroyed

Which of the following best describes a theme of the poem "Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now"?

humans will regret destroying the natural world

How do the phrases "lead paint" and "sulfur dioxide" in line 15 help the reader understand the speaker's generation?

it shows how damaging the speaker's generation was to nature

How do lines 5-6 develop the poem's overall meaning?

it shows the destruction that human activity caused nature

What is the significance of the final line?

it suggest the extinction of bees and it shows how vulnerable the earth is and its devastating ecosystem

What does the speaker imagine the world of the future will be like?

many animals will be extinct; air and water will be polluted

What does line 4 reveal about what the person in the future most likely thinks?

that they destroyed the earth on purpose

How does the speaker describe humans' attitude toward the environment in this section?

they enjoyed and admired it

Why are the lines "and like our ancestors, we admired / its illuminated doodles" important to the development of the poem's theme?

they reinforce the idea that many previous generations were able to enjoy the environment