Layli Long Soldier 38 Poem

The “38”, a poem by Layli Long Soldier, comes across the historical information and author’s reflection on the mass legal execution of the Native Americans in the United States. The form of the poem is unconventional, because it does not contain rhyme or rhythm. The poem consists of 89 grammatically correct and carefully ordered sentences. Each sentence is separate from another through the white space, which visually looks like each sentence is a paragraph. While reading the poem, empty spaces between those “paragraphs” forces to stop and make a pause for understanding the information of each line. Long Soldier uses a dry judicial language in order to sounds historically truthful. However, the perfect structure and language breaks up in the