What is the poem sure you can ask me a personal question about?

What is the poem sure you can ask me a personal question about?

Through poetic devices, author of “Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question” shows how stereotypes from societies and her ethnicity affects her life. The authors usage of repetition helps readers understand how her ethnicity affected her life. Burns introduces how she becomes tired of explaining her culture to others.

When did Diane Burns write Sure you can ask me a personal question?

Further investigation revealed that the poem was written in 1989 and that Diane Burns, a Lac Courte Oreilles/Chemeheuvi, was born in 1957 and had passed away in 2006. She “first emerged,” we told our readers, “as a powerful literary voice in the 1970s working as a poet and model in New York City.

What effect does Burns repetitive use of words and phrases have on the poem what does Burns repetition convey to the reader?

Burns uses repetition to great effect. Not only does he repeat the In’st stanza as the last, he also repeats words, phrases, and rhymes. By using repetition, the poet makes “My Heart’s in the Highlands” sound like a song. Burns also uses the devices to emphasize his ideas.

Which best describes the kinds of questions asked of the poems speaker?

Which best describes the kinds of questions asked of the poem’s speaker? They are stereotypical.

Where are we going Walt Whitman?

Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.)

Which line gets repeated in the poem?

Refrain. When a line is repeated in a poem, it’s a technique called refrain. Some poems have a regular refrain whereby a line is repeated at the end of each stanza. Refrains contribute to the rhythm and beauty of a poem.

What impact does the use of repetition have on the poem Sympathy?

These lines are also a variation on the repeated lines in the first stanza: “I know what the caged bird feels.” So the speaker uses repetition with variation in order to hammer home to us the idea that he’s stuck. He doesn’t have freedom.

What is the subject of this poem?

The subject of a poem is the idea or thing that the poem concerns or represents. Looking for the poem’s subject is natural. Almost all poetry has messages to deliver — lots of them, profound and diverse as stars. But these messages are sometimes hidden, and you have to read attentively to make them out.

What is the theme of the poem masks?

“Masks” is about putting down the big masks that we all wear, that façade of “normal,” and revealing those weird parts of you that truly make you unique. It is also, however, about the risk we face as writers when we explore new and innovative routes for creating poems.

Who killed the pork chop?

He later died at a hospital. Police say the shooter was Dequalon Kelvion Garrett, 21, who also goes by “Pork Chop.” Garrett was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Dallas County Jail.

Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love?

The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we’ll both be lonely. Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage? He says that the trees are adding shade to the darkness of the night, and that he and Walt will continue to be lonely.

Why did Diane Burns write ” sure you can ask me a personal question “?

We had launched a poetry feature called “Pulling Down the Clouds” for our membership magazine, and I was always on the lookout for interesting Native work to run as the focus of the feature. I knew immediately I wanted this poem in the magazine. I loved its directness, its snarly, unapologetic, in-your-face attitude.

When did Diane Burns first write this poem?

I can’t remember when I first encountered this poem. I know I stumbled on it accidently, I think while doing some on-line research during my days as an employee of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

What kind of voice does Diane Burns have?

Hers is a complex voice in which humor, bitterness, and hipness all coexist in service to the poem. This was a voice like that of many of my Indian friends and colleagues, but one rarely heard by the non-Native world (at least beyond the pages of a Sherman Alexie book).

What kind of language does Diane Burns use?

I loved its directness, its snarly, unapologetic, in-your-face attitude. Its completely sophisticated, contemporary use of language. This was not work that catered to white assumptions and stereotypes: just the opposite, in fact. Hers is a complex voice in which humor, bitterness, and hipness all coexist in service to the poem.