ENGL122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Alliteration, Half-Breed, Assonance
15 Mar 2016
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Quotation before the poem starts: epigraph (purpose is to provide a framework. Epigraph of a crow provided saying crows are smarter than men. Metaphor to describing a woman as a crow (positive due to the epigraph) Alliteration (cree, crow; caw, caw, command: emphasizing to hear a harsh sound over and over. Go back to the land you came from represents speaker telling crow woman to tell the people that are saying this to her and annoy them: ironic that this is cree land. Metaphor of planting means that she won"t leave suggesting that she"s rooted here and something that belongs on the land (unlike the brick house) Power over what was printed (bulletin: printed becomes official". Last two lines: severed: violent connotation, assonance lots and blocks . Crow woman seeing what"s happening seeing everything going wrong. Went from metis to half-breed means loss of respect.
