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Summary Of Mercy Songs To Melancholy By Natalie Diaz

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The cultural struggles of the American Indians in Natalie Diaz’s In When My Brother Was an Aztec, “Mercy Songs to Melancholy” and “The Gospel of Guy No-Horse” “To be, or not to be” is the question. Explaining yourself by dancing or making an observation on someone feeling can be easy and difficult. Natalie Diaz’s “Mercy Songs to Melancholy” and “The Gospel of Guy No-Horse cope with the substances of acquired abuse in reservation life. Told from differ point of views, each poem share line break catharsis likeness. Diaz” Mercy Songs to Melancholy “is about an Indian looking for a psychological relief.” For a catharsis effect Diaz’s uses line break that give special importance to the stanza. Line break that helps to manage grief or sorrow in the first stanza are fester, suitcase, closets, black, Clemence Dane, underwear, somewhere, stop, and stomach. Words of importance signify liberation in the poem last stanza are: goddammit, table, and pie (Diaz 23). …show more content…

The scene shows disapproval on life in the reservation of a drunk with a psychological relief. A catharsis moment is capture as Diaz capture the substances of abuse in reservation life. From the beginning the poem descriptive line break words are use: Lopsided, body, glistening, yellow-haired, pink, sun floor, all are words for a gaiety is brief (Diaz 12-13). Yet, primed for humiliation the second stanza have line break words: thicker, PIMC-issued, blond, dollar-fifty, and Budweisers. In addition, Diaz turn humiliation to an honor in the last stanza with line break words: Indian damn, nights, dancing, smile, believed, again, bedraggled, other, them, movie, night, and hollered (Diaz

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