Thursday, October 7, 2010

#2

The poem makes allusions to environmental utopia. 'Clear skys' and 'pure water' are two things that the perfect environmental setting would require. The author also goes on and calls for the 'return' to the 'mammal' state of old. Basically the idea that the humans should return to the in-harmony state of humanity that could co-exist with nature in olden times. The phrase 'joined back to nature' exemplifies the authors belief that humanity should return to a state that should in-sync with nature. Therefore, there is a spurious belief that humanity a parasite that feeds on nature. Perhaps, the description of technology in an inert phase as if they were 'spinning blossoms,' is an allusion to the end of technology as we know it.
On the flip side, it is possible that the author wants to be universally pleasing. He recognizes that humanity has its needs like any other 'mammal' and it needs to reorganize its addiction in the context of nature. Therefore the author is calling for the use of technology to be more forgiving to the environmental utopia the author envisions. Humanity can frolic in technological bliss that adds to the beauty of nature. The state of 'mutually programming harmony' is needed to give way to the 'cybernetic meadow.' The author can only mean that technology can only add to the value of nature when coupled properly.
I believe the the first explanation is more accurate. The author sees technology as detrimental to the 'pure water' and 'clear skys' of nature. He therefore wishes that technology decays to the point where it is like 'spinning blossoms' that 'deer' can trample through. In essence, I believe the author hopes that 'nature' will exist unmolested in the ruins of technological society.

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