State Of The Planet

I decided to take each part of this poem and sort of dissect the pieces I don't quite understand, so that I may understand what Robert Hass had to say a little better.
1. My first question for Hass is, why are you so intriqued for this girl? Is she just a girl that you have seen for the first time today or is this a girl that you like and have seen often? Or is the girl really a girl at all or is she just a representation of something?
2. " its natural idioms of ardor and revulsions, ... As the Latin of Lucretius," I have no idea what he meant by this entire sentence. So, I decided to look up a view words and look up who Lucretius may have been.
Its natural expressions of eagerness and disgust, so this makes a little more sense. Lucretius was a Roman philospher who tried to explain scientific explation of the universe.
3. Did an artist really ask to make glow and the dark dogs?!  I tried looking this up, but I couldn't find anything specific.
4. I think that this may be my favorite section for one reason, the reality of his words. Nature is so beautiful. From the bright colors of the flowers to the grey of the rocks. Us as humans take advantage of nature. We pigments for makeup and feathers for earrings but we never think twice about where they came from.
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6. Is he referring to evolution now, we he talks about cells being divided and then then the essential miracle?
7.It is crazy to think about all of the unseen creatures in this world. All of the beauty that people look over and don't stop to appericate. It's sad how we just don't care and let ourselves pollute as much as we do. " To the sureface where gouts of the oil that burns inside The engine of the car I'm driving oozes from the banks."
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10."What is to be done with our species? Because We know we're going to die, to be submitted to that tingling dance of atoms once again,"I don't know how I exactly feel about this line, but it sticks out to me more than the rest, I really like it.  In this last section, I learned that little girl really was only a girl, which I suppose I should have known. I just suppose I tried to make more out of something very simple.

Over all I really enjoyed this poem. There wasn't to much about this poem I didn't understand after analying it and serching up terms I didn't know. I am actually quite excited for the nature poetry and working more with this poem.