Earth and I Gave You Turquoise (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
N. Scott Momaday’s poem “Earth and I Gave You Turquoise” is an elegy consisting of five sestet stanzas. In this poem, the speaker pays tribute to a deceased love and makes plans to join her in the afterlife. The first stanza establishes the relationship between the speaker, “I,” and the subject, “you.” Written in the past tense, the opening lines of the poem tell the reader that the happy life experienced by the speaker and the subject ended when the subject became ill. The reader infers that the subject died after becoming “ill when the owl cried.”...
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