Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Analyze peom ( you see this body)

I chose to analyze the poem called, 'you see this body' which is written by Marcie Rendon. After reading this poem, I felt sorry for Indians who had to suffer from humiliation and harassments. While I was reading the poem, I was able to depict a big picture of the poem however, I had hard time with analyzing each stanzas in the poem. Basically the poem I chose was about Indians who suffered from past events such as Trail of Tears and Wounded Knee. Besides, the poem express their innocents from talking about their identity. Indians lost their identity and they also do not have rights or choices to fight against the intruders. There were few stanzas which talked about the gender and sexuality in the poem. It seems that it does not directly mention about them, however, if you keep reading the poem you might able to figure out the hidden meaning that the author is trying to say. Some stanzas like, stanza 6 expresses the inequality and sexual harassments that they had to face during that period. Although I had a big picture of the poem, there were some parts that I was not able to understand. Especially, while I was reading the last three stanzas in the poem, I was not able to understand clearly. Consequently, the poem expresses their sorrow and agony that they had to face from the intruders.

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