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How does the author's description of dogs as "syphilitic" (Line 19) and humans as "tubercular / masters" (Lines 20-21) contribute to the meaning of the piece?

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The author's description of dogs as "syphilitic" and humans as "tubercular/masters" emphasizes the unnatural feeling urbanization and industry has brought, which serves to negate the imagination of the modern world as an idyllic wildlife landscape by the author.

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The poem Walking Down Park by Nikki Giovanni portrays a speaker who re-imagines the modern world as an idyllic wildlife landscape, an imagination disrupted by the fact that industrialization has taken over the natural scene and brought disease and discomfort with it.

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