Question:
Help on understanding a poem?
it reads:
there will come soft and the smell of the ground.
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
I'm not sure what you are having trouble understanding, But it basically is saying that if mankind were extinct, nature would go about business as usual.