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Diane Glancy's Poem 'Without Title'

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Don’t Lose Your Self
Certain words and phrases are used in Diane Glancy’s poem, “Without Title,” to convey a theme about Native American tradition how when you lose your identity, you lose yourself. An example for this is the word “buffalo” in the story how it expresses how the father is like a buffalo because of his hard work and his mentality as well. The father would “hunt” in the story and bring back meat to the family, he would also bring back their horns and hides as trophies in a way, although the wife didn’t agree on that part maybe because she wasn’t Native American. In the story the father has a “vision” which he imagined going and working in the city instead of hunting the buffalo. The reason why the father might have had that vision

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