Imitation #5 1990s poem David Henderson "Evergreen (A Chant For The Tropical Rain Forest"

"the death of deciduous broad-leafed evergreen
for pastureland to graze diseased beef for export
for sleep named housing hamlets bowling alleys 7-Elevens
hamburgers as far as the eye can see evergreen evergreen

tidy clusters of new england style homes parcels and lanes
along the pan-american highway from amazonia to surfeit
economies of the norther mainlands
the same route as the slave ships"

 The poem I chose to write about for poetry written in the 1990s is a poem called  "Evergreen (A Chant For The Tropical Rain Forest"by David Henderson. The poem talks about how the rain forests of the world are being destroyed because of greed. The people and civilizations of the world, and in this poem especially America, are destroying the rain forests for many uses. Henderson states some of they uses in the first four bars. He does not think that these reasons are valid based on the way he states the uses. He sates they use the land as "pastureland to graze diseased beef", not only countries cutting down the rain forest but they are using it to raise unhealthy cattle which are used for their meat. This in turn makes the beef people consume unsafe. These vital habitats and forests are being used for houses, 7-Elevens. The countries are greedy, at the end of the poem he changes the word he repeats, "evergreen" to "evergreed", which shows his feelings toward the countries that destroy these "broad-leafed evergreen" forests. In the second part of the poem I chose, the last four bars, also talk about some of things that the wood is for. It also mentions that the same routes the trees are being used to create and are taken from are the same as the slaves. He uses simile to compare the trees to slaves. The trees cannot stop what is being done to them, just like slaves really had no say in how they lived their lives. The trees and slaves alike were both taken from their homes and used to do tasks. This poem is a confession, Henderson is stating how he feels about the destruction that is taking place in the Earths rain forests.