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Comment 6 of 14, added on July 27th, 2010 at 3:43 AM.
Hiawatha

With no trace of bitterness or rancour, I must point out that as a person
of First Nations extraction, it's interesting to see how clearly
Longfellow's poem falls into both the realms of the "myth of the Noble
Savage" as well as the "myth of the Vanishing Indian". At the same time,
it's interesting to point out scenes such as the one where Hiawatha is
equated to the river and the meadow; of course! Innocent, pre-fallen man!
Several hundred years later, we're still here, and we're not just an
ennobled subject, these days we're writing our own poetry as well; look up
Lee Maracle, Joy Harjo, Gregory Scofield, Sherman Alexie;
I dunno, I guess my point is that it is always odd and unsettling to me to
always see First Nations people talked about in some weirdly romanticized
past tense;
just a thought...

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Comment 5 of 14, added on April 17th, 2009 at 12:25 AM.

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Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poem: Hiawatha's Departure
Volume: The Song of Hiawatha
Added: Jun 9 2005
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Poem of the Day: Jul 27 2010


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