The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald is a ballad with themes of environment, and loss. It covers the affects of the environment and the dangers they may pose, and a sense of how badly a tragedy can effect a wide group of people. In the poem, the Edmund Fitzgerald is a boat that gets caught in a storm and kills all the men aboard the boat. The theme of environment is present throughout the whole poem. Edmund Fitzgerald is a boat on Lake Superior in Ontario.…