Native Guard

Monday, March 2 @ 6:30 is Natasha Trethewey's reading (reception at 6:00).

Before that night, finish the book and review this and other blog posts about Trethewey.

To the left is a picture of the fort on Ship Island that Natasha Trethewey writes about in Native Guard.

Pay attention to how the fort and the island as settings can serve as metaphors for the themes in the collection.

Here is some historical background about the guard:

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Review the above site while you read.

Poetry Vocabulary

Here is a new terms have been added since we have been discussing Trethewey's book.
Enjambment http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/enjambment.html

As you are reading Trethewey's book, pay close attention to how she uses form, particularly how her meaning may be contained in a line, but by employing enjambment the poem's meaning expands to multiple associations or extend the meaning by following the thought and grammar to the next line or stanza.

When discussing her poems use the language, terms, and devices that best suit analysis:

* literal versus figurative language
* metaphor
* simile
* ballad/narrative
* refrain
* stanza
* persona
* allusion
* imagery--sight and sound