Ten Tall Oak Trees

Edwards and Smith have established a similar theme about humanities exploitation of the environment for benefits of their own. This is indicated in the poems, Ten Tall Oak Trees (Edwards) and Tree (Smith). Smith has also related his poem to modern society’s little regard for the environment and ecological concerns. The authors both use the poetic techniques, repetition, personification, and onomatopoeia to demonstrate the fact that modern society does not consider their impacts that they have on the natural environment. Edwards and Smith use this theme to show humanity’s disregard for the natural environment and present a commentary on this issue through the imagery of their poems. Thus, the poems by Edwards and Smith use literacy techniques

Edwards and Smith used this technique to continually convince the audience that humanity is exploiting the environment for the benefits of humans. This sends the message that humanity should be more aware of the impact they have on the environment. Edwards uses repetition of “Ten Tall Oak Trees”. Whereas Smith uses repetition of “I am the spirit of the tree” to illustrate a metaphor. Edwards continued to use repetition throughout the poem to prove the exploitation of trees. For example, after every repeat the poem uses repetition of exploiters, such as merchants, builders, and etc. In contrast to that, Smith supplies the trees in the poem with human characteristics. This likens the trees to be physical beings with thoughts, emotions, and feeling. For example, repetition relates to this because of the phrase “I am the spirit of the tree”. Throughout the end of Edwards poem, the environment is described as deserted with “no tall trees” but instead “empty skylines” along with “cold, grey rain”. This illustrates Edwards perspective on modern society and the impact in which they have on the natural environment. Whereas, Smith allows the audience to emphasize the killing of the trees. Which then helps to build a link between the audience and the trees in the poem. Consequently, both Edwards and Smith show how the environment is impacted by human activities. The authors use this to comment on modern society’s disregard for the natural