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Reservation Love Song Theme

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In this essay, I will compare and contrast the different themes of love found in the poems “Nightcrawler Buys a woman a drink” and “Reservation Love Song” in addition to how these themes are coherent with each book. In Gary Jackson’s, “Night crawler buys a women a drink” the speaker uses couplets to give pomp to the rhythm that follows the poem throughout the piece. In Sherman Alexie’s poem, “Reservation Love Song” the speaker uses his quatrains to give light to his symbolism to the length of this poem.
Both of these speakers to a masterful job in writing a poem that paints a vivid picture in our minds and although they may use very different methods there are some similarities as well as very obvious differences in these speakers styles. …show more content…

Let me mix into your bloodline.” Which to me shows me the idea of how interracial relationships are somewhat seen as bad or frowned upon because of the two parties coming from different backgrounds of life an the most visible one is by the way a person looks whether that be facial features, accent or color of skin an this poem I believe is not only limited to African Americans I believe the use of the word “mutant” is for all races. This fits into Jacksons book “Missing you Metropolis” which I believe has a theme of how we as a human race collectively are afraid to interact on emotional level with the other races. In Alexies book the speaker leans towards an idea of a relationship that has been very long and is almost a one sided affair in which one side dictates what the other side does, setting limitations on what the other person can do or have but also giving the other party a feeling that they are well taken care of as long as they do not over step the boundaries that have been set for them. In my opinion I think the speaker is trying to show how the government treated the Indians when they first came to north

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