Deer Dance/For Your Return (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nature, Native Americans or American Indians, Dancing or dancers, Rites or ceremonies, Hunting or hunters, Deer, Animals
The Poem
Written in free verse in seventy-two lines with an additional short paragraph of explanation following, Leslie Marmon Silko’s poem “Deer Dance/For Your Return” is a lyrical appeal for a return. It is a plea that re-creates and gives life to the very thing whose loss is dreaded. Subtitled “for Denny,” Silko’s poem invites the reader to link the absence of “Denny” (the man for whom the poem is written) to the ceremonial deer dance of the Laguna people to whom the poet belongs.
The reader is advised to go directly to the final paragraph of prose,...
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