Review of Australian poet Anne Shenfield’s poem ‘Magnnifications’

Review of Australian poet Anne Shenfield’s poem ‘Magnnifications’ I request readers to the poem first from the link https://redroompoetry.org/poets/anne-shenfield/magnifications/ and my review next. Thanks. I would list the strengths of this poem: 1.The poem is straight and simple, but drives home the bitter reality there is no escaping from the jostling of the maddening crowd. If you are focusing on anything serene, almost on a meditation, there is enough jostling and pushing and shouting around to derail your sojourn into the world of nature. 2. The poet’s understanding of the genre is evident. She simply opens the poem with a visual of someone connecting to the heartbeats of a tree through a ‘hands-free’ gadget. The reader is tuned to the green vision of the poet instantly. 3. Do we listen to the magnification of our own sound? What does it mean? Are we swept away by hypes? Are we comfortable in being judgmental and look for linear depictions reality? Or she drives home all these? 4. The expression ‘heart beating in drips’ is very poetic. 5. Daily dozens of poems surface on saving the environment and the green. But this poem is different in the tone, form, visualization and the content. 6. The expression ‘ice cracking sounds like a child screaming’ is symbolic of the melting of the glaciers all over the world from Himalayas to Antarctica. The effort to bring a tree’s heartbeats and the melting glaciers in the same poem is very creative and zealous. 7. Whenever you visit a beach, a hill station or an urban botanical garden, the indifference of the visitors to the survival of the green, the wildlife and the marine life is evident. Plastic waste is strewn anywhere recklessly. Among wonderful poets only a few come up with poems on ‘save our earth’. Authoring such poems and appreciating them as well are certainly our contribution in a humble way for a greener world.