Use Of Figurative Language In War Against The Trees

“All day the hireling engines charged the tees” (Kunitz). This quote from the poem “War Against the Trees,” uses personification to show that engines, bulldozers, were chopping or getting rid of the trees. In both of these poems, the authors Kunitz and Suess both use figurative language to kind of soften the idea of industrialization/deforestation and take off the focus of it being bad at that time. In both poems, they both give off the impression that very little is thought about the trees and environment before hand, for example, “I meant no harm. I most truly did not. But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got” (Suess). The words “I meant no harm” were very constant throughout the poem “The Lorax,” but words are words and it is pretty clear