Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Song of The Sky Loom

Oh our Mother the Earth, oh our Father the sky,
Your children are we, and with tired backs
We bring you the gifts that you love.
Then weave for us a garment of brightness;
May the warp be the white light of morning,
May the weft be the red light of evening,
May the border be the standing rainbow.
Thus weave for us a garment of brightness
That we may walk fittinggly where birds sing,
That we may walk fittingly where grass us green,
Oh our Mother the Earth oh our Father the Sky!



I like this poem by Tewa because it is about the nature around us. The author gives power to things that have power in our lives unknowingly. Calling Earth and Sky mother and father because we depend on these things to live in peace. If any of these things mentened like morning, evening, and rain began to falter, we would have problems. Big problems

This poem is loaded with figuerative language. From metaphors to personification. The personification comes in where Tewa says the Earth is our mother, and the sky is our father and we are its children. The author gives human like qualities to something not human. The tone of the poem is very calm and nomadic. The author just make connections/comparisions of things the Earth provides with things that she knows (sewing and knitting).
My favorite area of the poem starts at line three. I start to make connections of things that we could do to make the Earth's Health good enough to continue to take care of us. If we cut down on bad things like fossil fuel usage, global warming would not be a problem and the Earth could continue to bring us fair weather without outragous changes that we have witnessed lately. If we didnt spill things like oil and such in the sea, we would have healthier fish to catch and eat so we could feed our families. The weather would not be on constant rise and dicrease which causes sea levels to rise and glaciers to melt. Which happens to have a domino effect. It effect animals which effects mammals(which includes us). If we continued to bring gifts to the Earth and not destroy its habitats and tree's, our Earth's health would be at a better level. Who knows now how crazy it will get in my lifetime. It's crazy and it's not fair because it's not even my (generation's) fault. But we are the ones who are going to have to deal with it. Hopefully our Mother and Father will hold strong and take care of us.

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