English, 22.03.2021 18:50, sweaversw9602

POEM HELP PLEASE! WHAT ARE THREE EXAMPLES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THIS POEM:

Who Will Tell Them?
By Michael Simms

It turns out you can kill the earth,
Crack it open like an egg.
It turns out you can murder the sea,
Poison your own children
Without even thinking about it.

Goodbye passenger pigeon, once
So numerous men threw nets over trees
And fed you to pigs. Goodbye
Cuckoo bird who lays eggs
In the nests of strangers.

Goodbye elephant bird
Who frightened Sinbad.
Goodbye wigeon,
Curlew, lapwing, crake.
Goodbye Mascarene coot.
Sorry we never had a chance to meet.

Who knew you could wipe out
Everything? Who knew
You could crack the earth open
Like an egg? Who knew
The endless ocean
Was so small?

Right now, there are children playing on the shore.
There are children lying in hospital beds.
There are children trusting us.
Who will tell them what we’ve done?

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POEM HELP PLEASE! WHAT ARE THREE EXAMPLES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THIS POEM:

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