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Analysis Of The Eagle Poem By Joy Harjo

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In the Eagle Poem, Joy Harjo uses repeated imagery of circles to explore how one’s search for identity and meaning continues throughout his or her life. She is explaining how a person must pray to find them self and he or she truly is. She explains this by starting the poem by saying how, “to pray you open your whole self, to sky, to earth, to sun, to moon… and know there is more.” Here, she is showing that to find who you are as a person, you must search high and low and continue searching through the circle of motion, which is just a symbol for life. The symbol of the circle of motion represents the beauty of a circle and how it is never ending just like our search for our true identity is always continuous. Harjao continues to explore the

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