Another verse, similarly to previous one, also emphasizes emotions that narrates the
Native Americans struggles to stop greed from settlers unlimited power. Joe Harjo emotionally exaggerates displacement in order to emphasize struggles of the Natives over the years however,
Nguyen 2 the definition is misunderstood therefore, in consequence, a contrast between my definition to the Harjo's.
Since a displacement between a god and a human is hinted as a destructive force of nature, according to a verse "Rabbit Is Up to Tricks" which is about a lonely rabbit god that created and flawed a human out of clay. Those flaws were "programmed" from rabbit to a clay man(symbolizing a human) that represent a relocation of one idea to the other. Such destructive idea as Harjo states "And once the clay man started he could no stop"(21). The rabbit god displaced a malfunctioned "program" into the human to inflict eternal consequences such as regret. Essentially one rabbit god spread its harmful directions to clay men such that the men malfunctions for its greed/power. Rabbits instructions focuses on clay men to change personality unlike my displacement focuses on the change in the value of directions with no …show more content…
Even though Harjo's verse "From DFW Airport at Dawn" gives me a specific direction, the displacement value in the verse represents an nostalgic view on her memories through traveling east. My displacement are represented with numerical values of a specific unit compared to the verse displacement values of memories across the globe. The verse sets the narrator at airport that keeps traveling to the east as following "Over the island of fire and green,
I fly east / Over the houses on the ridge of the heavens, I fly east / …"(3-6). The narrator emphasizes home and traveling as a displacement for memories which concludes a home is never
Nguyen 3 irreplaceable to upcoming place. If I had to draw displacement of narrators travel path it would probably a straight line, but if I had to draw Harjo displacement of narrators travel path it would be an imagery of the narrators home vs narrators value of places traveled. The images that I see are very different comparing a simple line to a image of narrators mind on home vs outside.
Finally, from verses about never ending greed from the clay man to a flying east