E. Pauline Johnson: Poetry Literary Elements

The narrator in the poem "A cry from an Indian Woman’’ is the wife and she narrates the poem from a first person subjective point of view.

The poem "Marshlands’’ is written in an iambic pentameter.

In the poem ‘’The Corn Husker’’, the narrator compares the fallen Indian men with the corn husks left to rot on the ground. This comparison has the purpose of showing just how little the white people appreciated the Indian lives lost.

We find alliteration in the poem ‘’Marshlands’’ in the line ‘’ A thin wet sky, that yellows at the rim,’’.

One of the ironical elements is presented in the poem ‘’A cry from an Indian Woman’’ where the narrator refuses to be mad at the white soldiers killing the Indian men.

Most poems are meditative poems.

The action of the poem ‘’Joe’’ takes place in a white settlement.

The tone used in the poem ‘’Marshlands’’ is a neutral one.

The protagonists in the poem ‘’A Cry from an Indian Woman’’ are the Indians and the antagonists are the white men.

The major conflict in most of the poems is between the Indians and the white men.

The poem ‘’Marshlands’’ reaches its climax when the night comes.

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In the poem ‘’A Cry form an Indian Wife’’, the narrator talks about how much she hates when her husband goes to war. This is however an understatement because she is the one who sends him off to fight.

One of the allusions in the poem ‘’A Cry from an Indian Wife’’ is the idea that the soldiers should not be criticized for following orders. In the narrator’s opinion, the ones who should be blamed are the people who sent the soldiers to fight the Indians.

The term ‘’corn’’ is used in the poems as a general term to make reference to the lands stolen from the Indians.

We find a personification in the line ‘’lazy wings’’ in the poem ‘’Marshlands’’.

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We find an instance of onomatopoeia in the line ‘’ The wild goose, homing’’ in the poem ‘’Marshlands’’.