Explain the following lines regarding Meiyo's apparent transformation while sawing wood. What happens to Meiyo?
inside his veins another world
in full color etches
a blue sky on his bones,
a man following a bison herd,
and suddenly his hammer becomes a spear
he tosses to the ground
uttering a sound we do not understand. (12-18)
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in this poem it seems that Meiyo, bored with his repetitive job imagines himself as one of his ancestors; free to roam and hunt the plains. We are shown a juxtaposition of Meiyo's history and present as a way of identifying with his humanity. Meiyo is not just a faceless laborer; he is a man with a rich cultural history and dreams of making a better life for himself and his own descendants. Maybe...
ReplyDeleteMeiyo enters a trance/altered state as he mindlessly works his routinely boring job. In his altered state of mind he is activating primordial images located in the subconscious of his brain, which pulls up events embedded in his DNA possibly from the lives of his ancestors. His desire to be free roaming the land with nature under the blue sky drifted him far from reality to a place he would rather be.
ReplyDeletesuch original thoughts we conjure.
ReplyDeleteThe poem describes memories smell, tones, feelings, and the daily life of American Southwest.
ReplyDeleteMeiyo protests against the regularity of his work and at the same time he considers it a time waste.
He dreams of spending HIS time like the ancestors: "... and suddenly his hammer becomes a spare..."
Actually, in this quotation he transfers himself into one of them.
I think the idea of this poem has a lot of to do with the fact that Americans look at work differently than other countries.
Here, the word "work" means something like an absolute certainty, meanwhile other countries may view it more like a craft.
According to what I have learned in a history class, it is quite obvious. The westward accession is the cause for this
because people were exposed to a daily abusive circumstances of the nature.
2) He image he is like a “puppet” or animal, even though he is still alive; however, he think his lost a freedom. His life control with the cruel society. He does not have a chance to control his life by himself. He can see the sky very clearly, yet he didn’t see himself. Only one he can see is the cruel world, human’s competition. It makes him tired with the life, and pain. Nobody know what’s the deeply feelings with him. He feels lonely, and nobody can help him move out this situation.
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