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What is the theme of the poem The City Planners?

What is the theme of the poem The City Planners?

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  1. “The City Planners” criticizes the fixation on environmental management that humans have. The speaker of the poem finds the monotonous perfection of suburbia, with its well-kept lawns, tidy homes, and unsettling quiet, to be both weird and oppressive. “The City Planners” is a poem concerning the rising alienation and devastation of civilization from the natural world, as well as a critique of humankind’s insistence on rigid order and uniformity. The poem suggests, among other things, that the orderly exterior of suburbia hides the actual price of residents’ comfortable lifestyles.

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