State of the Planet

The State of the Planet written by Robert Hass was a very interesting poem describing the many wonderful aspects of our planet Earth. The planet just has so many things that are put together to help make the planet an atmosphere that we can live and survive in. It just further shows that there is no possible way any kind of evolution has occurred or any big bang that occurred millions of years ago. I think he also illustrates that we are not as appreciative of our planet as we should be, due to the way pollution has increased throughout the years, but we are also now trying to change that in our new products. All of the descriptions he lays out through the whole poem makes me realize more and more that there is no possible way that this all came together by accident, and God thought this all through and that is what makes Him so amazing. I thought that when the author kept referring to Venus in the poem I think that he was just talking about the Earth in other ways just using a different name. I began to get very confused of where the author was discussing the thoughts of Lucretius and also talking about chlorofluorocarbons. I just realized at that part in the poem I got very lost and reread it a few times, but still did not really get something out of that section. There are so many things that I never think about that make this planet the way it is, and this poem shows me what some of those things are. Some of this stuff I have learned about in science classes before but I just end up forgetting these things over time, and this poem reestablishes those ideas and things I have learned in the past.