ENGL 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Signify, Flanaess, Rodenticide
14 Nov 2014
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Engl 227- american literature 3- lecture 23: ortiz and kinnell. Studying two very different poets who both write about nature. Ortiz: one hand dealing with the past with history and native american history in contemporary america, come together in the natural surrounding world. Animals playing a mythological role or endowed with meaning or significance regardless of how far away from nature they are. Eagle represents guardians, linked to the sun, power and strength, solitude, can see the associations of the animal and the concepts that have been linked up with that. The ability to see great distance, exceptional vision, to anticipate what might happen in the future. Playing with the national mythology and the one he experienced as a child or his family traditional mythology. Reduction of a person to defined set of qualities, a person transforming into an animal.
