Saving Places - I Thought I Saw

This week's task in English was to discuss and give your opinions about a poem called "Saving Places - I Thought I Saw". I will try to give my view of what the author is trying to say and what the message in the poem is. The poem is written by Hannah Tobin (10).

I think the poem is about how humanity will destroy the nature and wildlife if we do not change the way we live.  I think the author tries to say that we have to do something about the pollution problem and take more care of the wildlife. She tries to say that we can not continue destroying the nature if we want the earth to be like it is now.

The poem is written from the future looking back on how humanity destroyed the nature and wildlife. In the poem the "I - person" describes how she thought she saw different things, like animals and a fertile plain. The  bird in the picture is a kingfisher who is one of the animals the girl thought she saw. This makes the reader thinking about why she do not see these things. The last sentence in the poem is: They all died out because of me. This tells the reader that the things died out or got destroyed because of "me". I think the "me" is the humanity or the generation the "I" is a part of, and the author tries to say that in the future we will realise and regret what we did to the nature. The things she thought she saw is things the author think we have to take care of and treat good.

It is really impressive that this poem is written by a ten year old girl, and I think it is good that kids and teenagers are doing things to make people think about how they treat the nature and wildlife.

Syver