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What theme about tradition and community does this poem convey?

Read the poem "Without Title" by diane glancy.


It's hard you know without the buffalo,
the shaman,[1] the arrow,
but my father went out each day to hunt
as though he had them.
He worked in the stockyards.
All his life he brought us meat.
No one marked his first kill,
no one sang his buffalo song.
Without a vision[2] he had migrated to the city
and went to work in the packing house.
When he brought home his horns and hides
my mother said
get rid of them.
I remember the animal tracks of his car
backing out the drive in snow and mud,
the aerial[3] on his old car waving
like a bow string.
I remember the silence of his lost power,
the red buffalo painted on his chest.
Oh, I couldn't see it
but it was there, and in the night I heard
his buffalo grunts like a snore.

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This poem is especially pertinent in the sphere of tradition and community. Specifically, this poem has to do with the modernization of Native communities in today's world. We all come from different families, and I think we can all relate to the father who brought home his horns and hides. There are always people who want to preserve their own culture, so  it won't fade into obscurity; this archetype obviously fits the father like a glove. the mother seems to have some deep reservations about her own culture and wants to reject it. It is interesting to see these two different schools of thought battle each other out in the poem in front of us. This poem addresses the question of the importance of Native culture; how it needs to exist through these changing times. I hope this helps :)

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