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The authors highest purpose for this poem is to show something that it gone. In this poem the author explains a world that has been lost. He makes many references to a land that is now gone. A land that has been destroyed. This poem is showing the after math of destruction. It is showing what is left after destruction takes place. Only a memory of something. Sometimes destruction leaves you with nothing and only memories. Many things in our lives will only be memories. But when an actual place or being is destroyed, that is much more powerful in becoming a memory. Something that ounce was but no longer is. The poet is trying to show the memories of something destroyed.

Possibly, Des. Not sure that it's definitely an ode to the lost earth - I think it could be directed to another person, a loved one. The bigger is now what? Does the poet want us to react? Are we supposed to wallow in panic? Is it too late, do you think?