The word friendly completely contrasts with this as it suggests happiness and joy, bombs are not friendly, nor do they bring happiness. "Friendly bomb" suggests they are welcome and a good thing to benefit the town. It suggests they are friends or Betjeman is close to them. This helps to convey the very strong emotions, Betjeman is saying that it is a right and good thing for the town to be destroyed, they way this phrase is repeated twice makes it even more powerful.
The use of the word "mess" twice is an effective choice of words as mess is very disorganised and careless. It suggests that there is nothing important so it's just been disordered and builds up messily. It also suggests anger and contempt, t6hat the people have allowed it to happen. It also symbolises the products and pollution, they develop new products and they are just used and left and the pollution is a mess and is covering the town., To "mess up the mess" is saying that it is really useless and that things get messy and worse and there is no point in tidying it or putting any effort into it. The word mess also implies the people of Slough are junk and not worth saving.
Betjeman's powerful images help to convey his contempt for the industrialisation and development of Sough. He uses powerful metaphors and images to convey these feelings and to help the reader to feel them too. A powerful metaphor and image is "Tinned beans, Tined minds, Tinned breath" The idea of tinning food is a very new and economic idea, and the introduction of Tinned breath" and Tinned minds" is quite subtle. It seems to flow in, in a way that Betjeman is saying is normal and acceptable. It isn't stressed in any way but automatically changes the tone from light and comic to serious and depressive. Metal tins give the impression of power and strength, this could symbolise the government. It gives the impression that they are constricted and trapped, can't reach their full potential in what they think and believe and that a higher power rules over them.
The estuary zones include the mangrove swamp, the coastal prairie, the freshwater slough, the cypress swamp, the hardwood hammocks, and the pinelands. ... Along its edges, limestone sediments restrict the flow of water, while in the center of the wetlands; a broad marshy slough shields the land. ... Fresh water plants and animals are being killed by seawater and waste water that have flown into the sloughs. ...
The water birds who make the pacific flyaway migration such as ducks, geese, and herons are being affected by the drought as well as their habitats mostly wetlands and sloughs are beginning to dry up ("What if the Drought Continues" 2015). ... In Watsonville most parts of the sloughs where their use to be water are now completely dried up due to the lack of rainfall. ...
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