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What Is Sharon Olds's Message From 'Ode To Dirt'?

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Nature surrounds people, it provides food, water, and shelter. Nature supports the human race. Nevertheless, nature is disregarded by society, and treated as a nuisance with no meaning. However, Sharon Olds wishes to change this with her message in her poem, “Ode to Dirt”. Olds uses the evolution of the narrator's attitude to teaching her readers to appreciate nature for all that it provides. Throughout “Ode to Dirt '' Sharon Olds uses tone as well as figurative languages such as similes and apostrophes to express the speaker's change in perspective surrounding nature. Sharon Olds uses a simile to explain the narrator's initial apathy towards dirt/nature. In lines 5 through 7 she writes, “It’s as if I had loved only the stars and not the sky
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