The City Planners

Question 1

What is the content?

Answer 1

1. Speaker of poem describes driving through suburbs
2. They’re offended by the “sanities” of neighbourhood’s sanitised, ordered streets
3. Inevitability of the collapse of this supposed idyll

Question 2

What’s the interpretation?

Answer 2

1. Offers a damning critique of the way the city planners try to control everything in the environ.
2. A. Describes obliteration of any elements of disorder as a form of madness
3. Beneath this, she criticised man’s destruction of natural world