Poem+Qs

1. “THE CORN GROWS UP”

The party starts The children in the room talk, talk The birthday girl came out The children in the living room talk, talk The birthday girl came out The children in the garden talk, talk The party starts The children in front of cake talk, talk
 * birthday party**

2. Hunting Song and I Have Killed the Deer Both poems are talking about killing animals. Also, both poems are repeating some words. For example, in ‘Hunting song’ it’s repeating words such as ‘From’, ‘Through’, and ‘Comes’. In ‘I have killed the Deer’, it’s repeating ‘I have’. In ‘Hunting song’ repeating words make a poem more interesting and in ‘I have killed the Deer’, repeating word shows what he have done. Difference between this two poems is that in ‘Hunting Song’, it clearly shows that he enjoys hunting but in ‘I have killed the Deer’, it’s not really showing how he feels about killing living things. Also, “Hunting song” is a poem that just talks about hunting, but “I have killed the deer” talks about that when we die, we are all going back to nature.

3. a. What did you like about the story? My favorite part of this story is “The white ear of corn had been changed into a man, the yellow ear into a woman”. I think that it is very creative, because I never thought of white ear of corn change to man and yellow ear change to women.

b. What did you dislike about the story? Some parts are too complicated, so it’s hard to understand.

c. What was the image that was most powerful or interesting for you? When the white ear of corn had been changed into a man, the yellow ear into a woman and wind give them life. It is the most interesting part in the story.

d. The Native Americans who wrote this poem are similar to other pre-colonial societies in that they write about the materials of their everyday lives in their myths. Food, nature, and animals are some such materials. Identify all the specific materials that appear in the story that would be common in the everyday lives of the Native American culture. For each material that you identify, explain briefly what is happening to it in the story. Cornmeal- It is a food that Native Americans ate. In the story, while people dried themselves with cornmeal, they heard the call of the approaching gods. buckskin- It was use for cloth. In this story, the gods laid buckskin on the ground and placed the two ears of corn. ears of corn- just like cornmeal, it was a food. In the story, when they lift the buckskin, two ears of corn became a man and woman was there.

e. What can you tell about the culture of this people based on the materials that appear in this story and they way that these objects are used? Do you notice any patterns in how these materials are depicted? According to the materials, I think they are raising corns for food and hunt animals for food and cloths. Materials were used to describe how first man and woman born. At the beginning it said that women dried yellow cornmeal and men dried white cornmeal, then at the end ear of yellow corn became woman and ear of white corn became a man.

4. He was keep talking about killing living things, then at the end he talks about his death and how his body is going back to nature and give benefits to other living things; To explain that we have to kill living things to survive, but when we die we become source for other living things to survive. In this poem he is not showing how he feels about killing living things. The line “The circle of life is never broken” the turning point in the message of this poem. In a single sentence, this poem is trying to say that when people die, we are returned to nature.