Exploration in the poem “Backdrop addresses cowboy”

The poem suggests that the exploration of the terrain leads to the destruction of the environment by the use of prosopopeia. The author speaks as the landscape and expresses its feelings about the consequences of cowboys traversing through it. The land says “tincans, bones, empty shells, / the litter of your invasions.” (Atwood 34 - 35) expressing how irritated it is by the constant littering after every fight, no cowboy ever cleans after themselves, and this heavily contaminates the land. Exploring the terrain can cause an encounter between cowboys and it will usually end in a fight, making…