Throughout these poems, Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard plays on the juxtaposition of nature and death. Specific examples of this can be found in "News of My Mother" and "Submarine Tomb". This can be best summed up in the line "And for their funerals we will dry up the sea." Funerals being the representation of death and the sea being the representation of nature. In addition Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard discusses different points of perspective by his constant mention of things dealing with above, and below. He continues to discuss trees, suns and stars in lines such as, "before the baobab took aim at a flight of birds" and "I am now very high upon the tree of the seasons"(News of My Mother). He references 'beneath' in his poem "Submarine Tombs" and in lines such as "May the hide of the earth split beneath my feet"("Death and Rebirth") and "beneath the feet of pachyderm tyrants"(Secret Destiny).
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