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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
Silent Spring , I realized how loaded the comment is with meaning. The quote is describing humans and how humans treat the plants here on earth. The quote describes a scene where humans continue to destroy plants because they feel that they are in the way or that the plants are not appealing to look at. However, the plants that humans kill each day with chemicals and pesticides end up ruining the complete area and stripping it of the natural beauty of the land. The situation cannot be fair when chemicals are used. Humans today expect that when they kill a plant then that is the end of it and all is fair. This cannot be more wrong according to this quote. When you kill one thing many others will die along with it. In Chapter 6 of Rachel Carson’s Silent
Spring Carson tells of how after chemicals 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 according to the land owner. The second p...

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