Showing posts with label unifying the world. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Nye's Poetry and Identity

Aside from the poem "Kindness" in which Nye shockingly but candidly (and I think wonderfully) connects all readers with the Indian on the side of the road who could be any one of us, find at least two other specific quotations from poems in the volume Words Under the Words in which Nye attempts to connect the reader to someone or a group of people Western culture has usually deemed as Other (in Said's terms --- i.e., Oriental, Asian, Eastern, on the margins, etc.). Please quote the passage and include the line numbers and the title of the poem, and interpret the lines. Thank you. Due date: Wednesday by 4:30 p.m.