A Navajo Blanket (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: May Swenson
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Culture, Art or artists, Spiritual life or spirituality, Native Americans or American Indians, Southwest, Rites or ceremonies, Birds, Colors, Weaving or weavers
The Poem
“A Navajo Blanket” is a fourteen-line poem in two stanzas of equal length. In the poem, May Swenson is describing the dazzling colors and distinctive designs of a traditional blanket made by the Navajos of the American Southwest. The colors and shapes of the blanket make her think of what the blanket represents—the Navajo people, their culture, landscape, and ceremonies. In this meditation on the blanket, however, she is also writing about an experience in which the individual undergoes a transformation of consciousness through the experience of a work of...
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