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* [[Literary Allusion Title]] - The title refers to a poem that contains a description of a barren land where no birds sing. The first chapter is also titled "And No Birds Sing." Spring is silent because the birds are gone. (This book was written in a quieter age.)
* [[Rule of Symbolism]] - It's one of the first environmental books, so Carson stresses the loss of beautiful things -- birds, flowers, butterflies...
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* [[Strawman Political]] - Environmentalists and this book [[Did Not Do the Research|are blamed for millions of malaria deaths]] "proving" that environmentalists care only about animals and hate people. See [[Hate Dumb]] on the [[Silent Spring/YMMV|YMMV]] page.
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