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continuous change. Wolverton mentions change and human’s inability to accept it.
I believe that living beings are weary of change because like death it requires entrance into a land of uncertainty. The poem “We Resist Evolution” approaches this ideology of change. Wolverton opens the poem by stating that every living thing resists evolution. She writes about the cell that refuses to split, “the shapeless blind-eyed swimmers who did not long to crawl or breathe”, and her metamorphosis in a woman-like body. The changes/evolutions depicted in this poem all deal with death and life as well. It’s obvious that she mentions living things and their metamorphosis’ but maybe not so obvious is the inherent fact that with every metamorphosis a death occurs-that is the death of the old to make the new.
Midway through the piece Terry Wolverton addresses the reluctance of the dinosaur to it’s demise. She also mentions our denial of death and the ironic acceptance of our life in it’s clammy ...

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implies a certain death of sorts. We see this in Terry’s last line, “....which is why their species will survive long after our is toast deals directly with our demise.
“Even while dying the plum tree bears fruit” is a powerful line from “The Plum Tree”. It suggests the previous notion of life being so intertwined with death, but proposes that as life fades into darkness a lasting light can soon ignite. Even though the plum tree has a diseased trunk and possibly accepts it’s death it brings forth life that we in turn eventually pluck from it’s dying limbs. The fact that we do so demonstrates once again the aspect of human destruction and the urge of death, whether it be intentional or ...

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