I don't understand this poem can someone tell me what they think about it
Windigo By Louise Erdrich For Angela The
Windigo is a flesh-eating, wintry demon with a man buried deep inside of
it. In some Chippewa stories, a young girl vanquishes this monster by
forcing boiling lard down its throat, thereby releasing the human at the
core of ice. You knew l was coming for you, little one,
when the kettle jumped into the fire. Towels flapped on the hooks, and the dog crept off, groaning, to the deepest part of the woods. In the hackles of dry brush a thin laughter started up. Mother scolded the food warm and smooth in the pot But l spoke in the cold trees: New one, l have come for you, child hide and lie still. The sumac pushed sour red cones through the air. Copper burned in the raw wood. You saw me drag toward you. Oh touch me, l murmured, and licked the soles of your feet. You dug your hands into my pale, melting fur. l stole you off, a huge thing in my bristling armor. Steam rolled from my wintry arms, each leaf shivered from the bushes we passed until they stood, naked, spread like the cleaned spines of fish. Then your warm hands hummed over and shoveled themselves full of the ice and the snow. l would darken and spill all night running, until at last morning broke the cold earth and l carried you home, a river shaking in the sun.
You peaked my interests.
''Windigos are cannibals made of ice or people whose insides are ice. In
other novels in the Love Medicine series, we learn that members of the
Nanapush family (including Fleur) may have gone ''windigo'' during
starving times long ago.''
This seems like only a part of a much larger story. This author is very intriguing. He is a Poe I've never heard of. Anyway, I can guess at what this poem means by the definitions associated with the title. The composition of the poem is very artistic.
i dont understand it but its nice mabye someone with a higher
i.q could answer this as i am a tard
sorry, thats to much to read
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