The New Apartment
The New Apartment: Minneapolis
By: Linda Hogan
Pg. 343
Linda Hogan captures the essence of a bigger picture while focusing on her emotional ties to current events taking place in the world surrounding her. She also emphasizes on her distinct feelings and their connection to her home, a place that causes her claustrophobic anxiety. “The New Apartment: Minneapolis” reveals Hogan’s psychological response to the building where she lives and the nature of impact on the escape and fantasy embodied in a personal space.
On the surface, this poem portrays the annoyances of the building she lives in and the ways in which people have lost hope. She illustrates a vivid picture of personal emotion and a clear image of the apartment’s physical setting. My interpretation of “The New Apartment: Minneapolis” by Linda Hogan include the importance on difficulties and hardships experienced while considering the authors role as an Indian woman before and after the white invasion. It took time and deep thought to reveal the central idea of this poem due to the complexity of each individual stanza. Hogan expresses how she feels about life in her shoes and what it means to be an Indian. She dedicates several lines to recognizing the differences between what she was before white invasion and what she had experienced due to the invasion itself. She reveals what they experience now through proposing changes and detailed points of view for the reader. She addresses what it means to be a Native American woman in the world today and how her thoughts portray a feminist perspective on personal space. In order to capture the personality and motivations of the speaker in this poem, we must first understand her background. The speaker can be defined as a middle-aged Indian woman who feels victimized. She reveals thoughts about the cramped and perpetually hopeless plight of the urban Indian. Hogan strikes me as a woman who exerts a feeling of hope while illustrating a situation that could be
By: Linda Hogan
Pg. 343
Linda Hogan captures the essence of a bigger picture while focusing on her emotional ties to current events taking place in the world surrounding her. She also emphasizes on her distinct feelings and their connection to her home, a place that causes her claustrophobic anxiety. “The New Apartment: Minneapolis” reveals Hogan’s psychological response to the building where she lives and the nature of impact on the escape and fantasy embodied in a personal space.
On the surface, this poem portrays the annoyances of the building she lives in and the ways in which people have lost hope. She illustrates a vivid picture of personal emotion and a clear image of the apartment’s physical setting. My interpretation of “The New Apartment: Minneapolis” by Linda Hogan include the importance on difficulties and hardships experienced while considering the authors role as an Indian woman before and after the white invasion. It took time and deep thought to reveal the central idea of this poem due to the complexity of each individual stanza. Hogan expresses how she feels about life in her shoes and what it means to be an Indian. She dedicates several lines to recognizing the differences between what she was before white invasion and what she had experienced due to the invasion itself. She reveals what they experience now through proposing changes and detailed points of view for the reader. She addresses what it means to be a Native American woman in the world today and how her thoughts portray a feminist perspective on personal space. In order to capture the personality and motivations of the speaker in this poem, we must first understand her background. The speaker can be defined as a middle-aged Indian woman who feels victimized. She reveals thoughts about the cramped and perpetually hopeless plight of the urban Indian. Hogan strikes me as a woman who exerts a feeling of hope while illustrating a situation that could be