How Does Boey Convey His Feelings in 'Report to Wordsworth'?

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How does Boey convey his feeligns in ‘Report to Wordsworth?’ ‘Report to Wordsworth’ by Boey Kim Cheng is a poem that is a direct response to ‘The World is Too Much With Us’ by William Wordsworth. In the latter poem, Wordsworth talks about how the people have lost their connection to nature, and that we are being preoccupied with material goods. The poem by Boey is a response to that poem, and it is written in the form of a Petrarchan sonnet, which is predominantly used for expressing love. This shows that Boey has a very deep connection with nature and is very concerned about its well being. You can further see his respect for nature, as he uses a capital ‘N’ to refer to it. By giving it a capital lettered name, it makes ‘Nature’ seem almost like a god or a person, perhaps even mother nature herself, and gives us an imagery of care and protectiveness. This idea of nature being caring is a contrast to the theme of the poem, which is destruction. By personifying nature as someone that is tender and shielding, it gives the reader a sense of helplessness, to see something (or someone) like Mother Nature suffer like this. There is also a sense of foreshadowing the destruction that Boey is about to describe. Throughout the poem, Boey is constantly referring to gods, as tries to make it seem even more desperate, that even beings as mighty and as powerful as gods can’t resolve the crisis. He also writes in the last line ‘God is labouring to utter his last cry’. This shows that despite God’s high status and his ability to supposedly do anything, even all that is going on around him seemingly weakens him. Though gods seem to be the primary focus here, he also places real-life connotations that remind us that we are still the ones responsible here. For example, he writes ‘his famous horns are choked, his eyes are dazed’. It is referring to a god suffering here, but
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