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The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role, Part Four

The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement ’ s Role PART FOUR The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role Nani Palkhivala Understanding the text 1. Locate the lines in the text that support the title ‘The Ailing Planet’. Ans. The following lines support the title, ‘The Ailing Planet’. 1. The earth’s vital signs reveal a patient in declining health. 2. “Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and ailing environment?” 3. A three-year study using satellites and aerial photography conducted by the United Nations, warns that the environment has deteriorated so badly that it is ‘critical’ in many of the eighty-eight countries investigated. 4. It has its own metabolic needs and vit...

The Laburnum Top by Ted Hughes

Poet Ted Hughes was a British poet. He was born on 17 August 1930 in Yorkshire in England. According to the critics, he is the best poet of his generation and one of the greatest writers of the 20 th century. He was married to American poet Sylvia Plath from 1956 until 1963. His last poetic work Birthday Letters (1998) dealt with their relationship. His first collection The Hawk in the Rain (1957) was highly acclaimed. However, probably Crow (1970) was his most significant work. Hughes’s early poetic works dealt with the nature and savagery of animals. He served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1956 until his death in 1998 The Laburnum Top Ted Hughes The Laburnum top is silent, quite still In the afternoon yellow September sunlight, A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen. Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end. Then sleek as a lizar...

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