Prince Ea's Dear Future Generation

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Every minute the Amazon Rainforest is getting abolished at a frequency of 40 football fields a minute, and 100 hundred species of organisms are becoming extinct every day.Is this a World you want to live in?

In today’s standards, poetry is often overshadowed and much less spoken about than other matters. In reality, poetry is exceptionally repeatedly used in Songs, Raps, and pop music. Poetry has not declined, but has expanded and evolved into a diverse range of songs/poems, as listed music is one type. Slam poetry is regularly used to address world issues such as suicide (depression), Global warming, and Smartphones. One of these poems is “Dear Future Generations”, by Prince Ea.

Dear Future Generations was written to address, that we are cutting our way into an inhabitable world. Prince Ea.’s poem has inspired many to aid our dying planet. The Poem clarifies in an inspiring and a motivating way to assist the environment. Unlike other more traditional Poems, it tells us, amazing ways to benefit the World
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“50% of all trees in the world have been cut down in the last 100 years” “why? For this” then he takes out a Hundred-dollar bill. He also expenditures imagery and symbolism in the background of the video with large letters.

He also uses similes to furnish feelings to the audience. “We did not know how special earth was, like a marriage gone wrong, we did not know what we had until it was GONE”.
He correspondingly uses facts to back up his argument and give a convincing tone to the poem, making it more effective as an example one of the

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