Extended response- Native American Selections.
Many of the selections that I read shared common themes as to the different technical methods that they used to prove their points. Of them, I liked the poems the best. I, of course, am impartial due to the fact that I am a poet and love poetry more than I am a short-story writer or enjoy short stories. I have a short attention span, so it is difficult for me to stay focused on more than one, shortly phrased comment. I thought that they also employed numerous parallel devices through their perspective of writing and through specific techniques.
A common theme for both the stories and the poems was that of the, for lack of a better word, name-dropping. Each tribe had different words in their native tongue to describe nature. Many used this to point out their strength in their beliefs and their heritage. This helped establish a pride for each tribe and a greater understanding of the integrated English language.
My favorite poem wasSure you can ask me a personal question.? I thought that this poem was bluntly honest and concisely brutal without pushing too far the anger of the author. I thought that the poem, with its line structure and its broken form, helped develop the distasteful resentment that the author has for the other person. I thought at the end of the poem, her sarcastic, biting remarks helped establish her frustration. .
I think that this poem really opened my eyes to all the questions that we have for a person who is unlike ourselves, and, how insulting it can be to those people. I think that, being as outgoing as I am, that I have, in the past, tended to do the same thing. To some extent, the poem is a perfect example of a rebuttal to any comment made without knowing the person first. This includes comments about weight, age, height, body size and shape, ethnicity and race, gender, and even cultures defined by modern social music.
