Face By Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie, in his poem “Face,” explains that white people took over the land, created customs and introduced their customs to those on the reservations. He develops this idea in the first stanza by using a metaphor to compare both cultures have in common “This sonnet, like my reservation, keeps/ Its secrets hidden behind boundaries/ That are simple and legal at first read”; in the second stanza, he develops an image of how the speaker feels on adopting the “white masters culture” along with his own, while disappointing his tribal elders “If I find it pleasurable/ To (imperfectly) mimic white masters/Then what tribal elders have I betrayed?”; furthermore, in the third stanza Alexie alludes Robert Frost as to why the speaker can remember