Silent Spring
Beginning of paper
The following quote “The sedge is withr’d from the lake, And no birds sing,” (Keats)
seems like a very simple sentence with no meaning to it. However, after reading Chapter 6 of
, I realized how loaded the comment is with meaning. The quote is describing
humans and how humans treat the p ....
Middle of paper
.... are used many beautiful roadsides and lands were
destroyed and the edges along rivers and were destroyed also which left animals without food and
water. The first part of the quote is describing this. “The sedge is withr’d from the lake” is
another way of showing the destroying of plants. The sedge that was withr’d in the quote has
been stripped of its natural beauty. This was caused by chemicals used along this lake to kill the
plants that were unattractive to the eye acc ....
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Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
