DIANE GLANCY *********** WITHOUT TITLE

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Write an essay on the following

1.       Analyze the cultural loneliness experienced by the father and the appropriateness of the title of the poem.

Diane Glancy is a great American poet and feminist. It was Glancy who coined the new term “She-donism”. She strongly believes in the power of women and calls herself a feminist. This poem is a glorious tribute to her beloved father who happened to be a Native American(Cherokee Indian) but married to a modern Anglo-German woman who always hated the traditional outlook of her husband. Hunting buffalos and other wild animals was an integral part of the  Native American tribal culture. When a Native American makes his first kill, it is celebrated with great pomp and  colour because killing a wild animal for the first time is regarded as a coveted achievement among the Native American tribal. The Native Americans believed that buffalos had mysterious, magical and  sacred power and these animals were an integral part of the  American tribal. There is a spiritual relationship between these wild animals and the  tribal people of ancient America which is celebrated with many ceremonies and rituals.

The narrator recalls every day her father went out without buffalo, shaman (spiritual power) and bow and arrow to hunt as if he had them all. Even after marriage, her father thought of himself as a Native American hunter.  He worked in the stockyards where livestock is kept and sorted. He brought meat to his family every day. No one noticed his first hunting and killing the buffalo and no one sang the buffalo song because he was separated from his tribal and had come to city life and married a modern woman of Anglo-French decent. In the evenings when her father came back home deadly tired after a day’s work in the livestock yard, mother would be angry with him because he bought with him the horn and hides and the father is insulted in front of his children.

The narrator remembers that her father was very fond of the pictures of wild buffalos and other animals and painted his car with the pictures of these animals. The father of the poet is a Cherokee Indian, he loves animals and even on his cars the feet of animals are painted. The poem depicts the sorrow of an uprooted man who loves nature and animals. He has no title, no identity of his own.

The aerial of the car is compared to the string of the bow of the archer. The aerial of the car is also slim, strong and therefore the figure of speech is a simile.                Kjt/-20-03-2020