Question

Commonlit : SONG FOR THE TURTLES IN THE GULF what theme does this poem express about humans and nature? Here the poem I just need help with this last question
We had been together so very long,


you willing to swim with me


just last month, myself merely small


in the ocean of splendor
and light,


the reflections and distortions of us,


and now when I see the man from British Petroleum


lift you up dead from the plastic


bin of death,


he with a smile, you burned


and covered with red-black oil, torched


and pained, all I can think is that I loved your life,


the very air you exhaled when you rose,


old great mother, the beautiful swimmer,


the mosaic
growth of shell


so detailed, no part of you


simple, meaningless,


or able to be created


by any human,


only destroyed.


How can they learn


the secret importance


of your beaten heart,


the eyes of another intelligence


than ours, maybe greater,


with claws, flippers, plastron.


Forgive us for being thrown off true,


for our trespasses,


in the eddies
of the water


where we first walked.

Answer 1

Answer:

here, the poem enlightens a bitter truth theme about the relationship between human and nature. the poem expresses the words of a young boy who'd grown up with the nature only to see it dying as he grew up. this shows that as the human world expands and generations make revolutionary changes to the world, humans are destroying nature which cannot be rebuilt by humans. humans have lost

prioritizing the nature and forgotten it's necessity