What does this mean? symbolize?

Question

They could put me in a helicopter and fly me up into the air and line up the bodies head to toe on the ground in delightful geometric patterns like an endless June Taylor dancers routine—and it would never be enough. No, I don’t keep count. But you do. And I love you for it.

Answer 1

Do you remember the picture of the dead oil soaked bird washed up on the shore? That was a symbol for pollution and the environmental hazard.  

The blackened, oily bird, washed ashore

juxtaposed between pristine treeline

and the oily, smelly sludge. It spoke...

not with words, but as an unwilling matyr.

With a scream that made tears gush why!