The War Against the Trees
What is the main conflict in The War Against the Trees by Stanley Kunitz?
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"The War Against the Trees" describes bulldozers toppling and digging out plants and large trees on a parcel of lawn recently purchased by an oil company. The poet mourns the loss of the past, of nature, and the absence of human concern for the "war's" victims, the plants and animals. Before Rachel Carson's Silent Spring helped inspire the environmental movement,