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beautiful things to substitute the destroyed environment, but they do not last
long. Anyway that means “no substitution for destroyed environment” and
“pleasure turns into poison and can kill the person who overindulges in it.” I
think this text is interesting. I got many things when I read this text. The poet
uses powerful words to show his feeling such as “winds play no longer and
sing in the leaves” “the tree is my seat” They made sense to my imagination
and my reading. I now understand the implied meanings largely. And they let
me be careful when I read the poem, because they show that only one word
can be the climax, theme of the whole story. So it should be full of
challenges for reading the poem to understand deeply. It requires the time,
practices and spirit for reaching to the reading comprehensive. And I will try
to reach that, even if it will take a long time and needs more patience.
Seeker 1
Environment: Text A
I read the poem, “the Poplar field” I feel sad for the poet. He is shocked by
the disappearance of poplar trees because he used to have good memory with
this place. It used to be the place of his rest. The song of birds charmed him,
and everything around it made him feel calm in his mind. But now he has
freedom after he had stayed in the prison for a long time. He came to this
place first, and saw that the poplars are gone. They became wood seats, the
birds also left from this place, there was no birds’ song anymore. When he
was a prisoner, he always dreamt to come to this favorite place again. And
now his dream came true but it is not happy for him anymore. He realizes
that time has changed everything. And this downhearted change came from
the pleasures of men who want benefits from this place. And one day their
pleasures will turn into poison and can kill the one who overindulges.
Survivor 1
Environment
I read “The Poplar Field” This poem tries to talk about a man feeling
disappoint and thinking aloud. The man in this poem feels very sad when he
came back to the fields where he played when he was a boy. The place
shows him the difference because the same place is changed now. Time
changed everything very much. He feels that reality then or memories now
are both sad because the poplars are felled. The people cut it down. There are
no birds singing in this place any more and he saw the poplars became a seat.
He is very disappointed, he is unhappy to see wood seat. In my opinion, I
think this poem about transformation. Time change everything good and bad
and both. If we are helpless to save environment like the poplar, one day we
will feel like the man in this poem. The place that was ever fertile in our
childhood disappeared and the rest of reality is memory now.