I disagree with this
post by Danielle. I do not think the two men “chose” life on Venus over
life on Earth. The way I understand the poem is that the two men were going to
Venus just for a study, maybe to see how the animals responded to life on Venus
to verify that it was habitable for the future, not on a personal quest to find
a utopia. In the poem, Earth isn't destroyed until after the men have already arrived on Venus, therefore they could not return to Earth because it was no longer habitable. They had no choice but to make things work as best as they
could on the planet they were on. When they set out on their journey, they had no idea that they would be the last of the human race
alive.
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