Summary Of Indian Woman By Jeanette Armstrong
“Indian Woman” by Jeanette Armstrong
“Indian Woman” by Jeanette Armstrong is a moving poem about the struggles a first nations woman has had to face throughout the past few hundred years. One can really see how the narrator's perspective changes from the beginning where she sees herself as this “savage” woman only capable of giving birth, to the end where she states just how amazing she is and gives life to tribes. Not to mention, she sounds mad in the beginning compared to the end where she seems to be happy and accepting of herself for who she is.
In the beginning of poem, the narrator calls herself “a savage, basically a mammal.” (3-4) because that is who she is told is. She is told that her only purpose in life is to give birth and that
“Indian Woman” by Jeanette Armstrong is a moving poem about the struggles a first nations woman has had to face throughout the past few hundred years. One can really see how the narrator's perspective changes from the beginning where she sees herself as this “savage” woman only capable of giving birth, to the end where she states just how amazing she is and gives life to tribes. Not to mention, she sounds mad in the beginning compared to the end where she seems to be happy and accepting of herself for who she is.
In the beginning of poem, the narrator calls herself “a savage, basically a mammal.” (3-4) because that is who she is told is. She is told that her only purpose in life is to give birth and that