1. Re-read pages 25-30. How do the speaker's questions reveal major issues
Trethewey has with the history of the Native Guard? List those issues as they are discussed in this poem (putting line numbers or phrases in parentheses alongside the issues please).
2. What do you learn about mother-daughter relationship from the poems in Part I. Characterize the nature of that relationship using quotations from the poems and brief summary of details as your evidence.
3. How does Part III serve as a commentary on both Parts I and II? Explain.
4.Look at the last poem. How does that poem work as a microcosm of the whole book? Explain. Be sure to look up the word "native" in the OED.
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Monday, February 28, 2011
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