Beginning of Essay
The following quote “The sedge is withr’d from the lake, And no birds sing,” (Keats) seems like a very simple sentence with no meaning to it. However, after reading Chapter 6 of , I realized how loaded the comment is with meaning. The quote is describin ....

Middle of Essay
.... were destroyed and the edges along rivers and were destroyed also which left animals without food and water. The first part of the quote is describing this. “The sedge is withr’d from the lake” is another way of showing the destroying of plants. The sedge that was withr’d in the quote has been stripped of its natural beauty. This was caused by chemicals used along this lake to kill the plants that were unattractive to the eye according to the land owner. The second part of the quote “and no birds sing” is describing the consequence of killing those plants. Once there were animal life along this lake. Birds sang and took baths in ....