Money provides safety and a promise for a future full of progress.

Nature will continue to grow despite human attempts to overpower and control it.

Valuing money above everything else will lead to the destruction of all life.

Destroying nature will force humans to leave Earth and seek help from other forms of life.

It reveals how money could both give and ultimately destroy.

It reveals that money made humans long for the past.

It reveals that money was beneficial for both humans and nature. B. It reveals how money led to a variety of successes for humans.

It reveals how money led to a variety of successes for humans.

By choosing to structure the poem as a letter to someone from another planet, the poet is able to shock the readers with the differences between the two planets.

By choosing to structure the poem as a flashback to earlier times, the poet emphasizes the regret that humans felt over losing their money.

By choosing to structure the poem by the ages, the poet conveys just how old the dead planet is.

By choosing to structure the poem by the ages, the poet reveals how greed caused human values to fall apart over time.