Friday, July 31, 2015

Where are the clauses in "Legacy" by Kenny?

There are four “which” clauses in the poem: the winds
which blow (line 6), the stream which reflects stories of the speaker’s many mornings
(line 13), the sun and the moon which direct the river (line 37), and the village which
endures (line 41) and which presumably continues life far into the indefinite future.
Rhetorically, these structures are parallel, and the repetitiveness is the essential
characteristic of anaphora.This device is characteristic of the structuring of “Legacy,”
for the content of the poem is to emphasize the inseparability of human life from the
earth itself. The “which” adjectival clauses repeat in language the same actual
connection. Thus Kenny uses the medium of words and syntax to demonstrate the Native
American self-identification with physical and spiritual Nature.

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