Analysis Of Ode To Northern Armanda

The feeling that can't be seen, called love, makes us irrational and helps us through tough times. In the Poem "Ode to Northern Alberta" by Billy-Ray Bellcourt we explore the pain and suffering conquered by love while also looking at how we make decisions based on emotions that may not be able to be explained. The poem's start introduces us to love and how people use it to cope without creating a setting. It states, "love keeps us busy while the smoke clears.".This starts off by showing the importance of love and how we use it to cloud our minds from pain and suffering, in this case, the hardships Indigenous people are going through caused by oppressors. This is later further proven when mentioning Cree girls running into the bush, waiting

It states, "history screams into the night/but it sounds too much like the wind.". People's ignorance of past and present suffering is said to be covered by the sounds of the wind, which helps connect to how no one can hear those who are screaming overtop of the loudness of other conversations. History yet taught so much is yet to be fully recognized, especially regarding mistakes made. Giving history human emotions helps to realize how people just want it to be heard and the anger it causes that no one

This, I believe, helps portray and almost convey the emotion in the reader to help imagine the feeling of losing something that you made yourself and took lots of time and effort, showing that love isn't just an emotion that can cause happiness, but also can cause grief at the same time.

Furthermore, the shortness of the poem and also the vagueness of the issue gives the reader more freedom to make their own conclusion on what that theme is or even how love affects us personally, is it good or bad? What I really find interesting, though, is it is an Ode to Alberta praising the place. This is fascinating because it starts the ode off in a painful and violent direction, making you wonder why to be thankful for a place like this. The writer even writes himself why worship something you can't see, referring to the feeling, pointing out that sometimes we just don't have words for our actions or