As the world becomes more technologically advanced, the human race becomes increasingly disconnected with the Earth. These technological advancements allow humans to live a simple life. However, as we continue to advance, we are slowly depleting the natural resources on planet Earth. As a result, planet Earth will not be able to support life as we know it. This is displayed in the short story “Chocco” and the poem “Tomorrow’s Song”, by the use of symbolism and allegories.
Allegories have on mission to accomplish, which is to convey a certain message. If there is lack of clarity regarding the one-for-one correspondence, then the allegory fails because the message is blurred. Symbols, though, generally are not clear like an allegory. Symbolism is often not reducible to a single statement, but will involve a range of meaning and interpretations. Although some symbols do have a relatively narrow range of meaning, but still cannot mean a single thing.
Gary Snyder the writer of “Tomorrows Song” used allegories throughout the poem. In the first stanza it says “The USA slowly lost it mandate in the middle and later twentieth century it never gave the mountains and rivers, trees and animals a vote. All the people turned away from it” (13). In other words Snyder is trying to tell us most of Americans did not change their approach to nature. They still do not perceive themselves as its part. Therefore, people still do not consider landscapes with their plants and animals as their equally positioned partners. This is why people do not think about how their actions and advancements in technology are impacting the Earth health directly. Modern civilized societies are lacking direct contact with the outside earth and technology is ...
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Both “Chocco” and Tomorrow’s song” both display a view into what are future holds for us if we continue along our current path. Currently we are slowly destroying the one thing that is essential for life. Our society as a whole takes the Earth and its resources for granted. This leaves society oblivious to what is happening around them. Although part of our society is trying to make a change it takes more than a small portion to make a change so huge. Only time can tell us what our future holds for us.
Works Cited
Callenbach, Ernest. Ed. Robinson, Kim Stanley. Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias. “Chocco”. New York: TOR, 1994. Print.
Snyder, Gary, Ed. Robinson, Kim Stanley. Anthology- Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias. “Tomorrow’s Song”. New York: TOR, 1994. Print.
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