Grandmother
Grandmother
Poem by: Ray Young Bear
Ray Young Bear, American-Indian poet and novelist was born in a mesquaki tribe. The theme of his writings is the contemporary American Indians search for identification.
In this poem 'Grandmother' the poet has re caused his grandmother's picture. The grandmother had a distinct shape. He could know her from a mile away. She used to wear purple scarf and eary plastic shopping bag while going to and returning from the market. When she returned from the field, her hands used to we yet he could still feel the warmth of affection, love and care in her touch. He could even know her by the smell of roots coming from her hands. He would always remembers his grandmother's every inspiring, so, thing voice every time he went towards the graveyard he felt. he head her voice. The voice followed into him like the light of someone stiing ashes from a sleeping fire at night. She was all loving and all inspiring.
The grandmother represents the cultural identity of the mesquoki tribe by remembering his grandmother, his something the loss of cultural identify. The poet is suggesting that cultural identity is the base of their existence. Everyone should work hard to seek and preserve such identity.
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