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  • In this poem, I make use of phrasal and syntactical repetition to show

  • the symbolic importance Native Americans place on the parts of body.

  • Here, a highway accident has left an owl dead in the road. The poem

  • became a way for me to honor and exorcise my sorrow. In my research,

  • for example, I found Native legends that incorporated the tail and breast

  • feathers; I learned that mythic characters took on owl qualities. Finally,

  • I found consolation in these stories.

  • Something to Consider: If you were to research the beliefs, material

  • culture and symbols of a religious or social tradition other than your own,

  • what might it be? To what other cultures are you drawn and why?

  • Death of the Owl

  • She said someone will come for the wings and snap them off, whole.

  • Someone for the claw, foot of a prayerstick. Someone will come for the eyes,

  • like the woman from Cochiti Pueblo who replaced her own with the raptor's .

  • Every part will be used: the short tail feathers

  • that cover the arms and torso of Owl Boy taken from his parents

  • and changed into a bird. Nothing is wasted.

  • No time to stop, I said. Right behind you, she replied, someone

  • who needed the feathers of the breast to place beside the restless child

  • and induce sleep. Someone who needed the undertail

  • feathers for a good peach crop. I saw the wings lift,

  • heard the head crack, no time to swerve----

  • the bird hunched in the highway drawn by something dead in the road----

  • before she hurtled into metal. A shaman who required the feathers

  • for her hair was coming to gain power over illness,

  • and someone claimed the remains of the Burrowing Old who lives in the underworld

  • and speaks with the dead. Someone who wanted an audience

  • with the Bringer of Omens, the Priestess of Prairie Dogs,

  • was coming, she said, right behind you.

In this poem, I make use of phrasal and syntactical repetition to show

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"貓頭鷹之死 ("Death of the Owl," a poem by Robin Becker, 2010-11 Penn State laureate)

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    阿多賓 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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