A map to the next world

Joy Harjos poems are filled with so many images and passages that lets one ponder and think about the complexity of the work. She is open to balance contemporary Ameri so-and-so life and ancient tribal truths magnificently.She is able to brilliantly attach the reader to the character. In A Map to the Next population, one knows that the poem is most probably addressed to a younger member of her family, a young daughter, or a grand daughter, in fact. exactly one feels that Harjo is personally talking to you we are put in the shoes of a member of a kin.In this poem (A Map to the Next World) one can meet how the idea of survival is central to the individual and the internal Americans as a people. And the way she addresses this survival is by emphasizing the importance of memory (a precise central theme in Native American culture) how one should not forget ones heritage.And she writes Keep track of the errors of our forgetfulness a fog steals our children spell we sleep. She ask s her readers to remember their heritage and find solace in it to Remember the hole of our shame marking the act of abandoning our tribal grounds.The poem promotes an sentience and understanding of the strength of memory a latch on the value on the powers of memory that all Native American cultures gift. Moreover, one can see how survival and continuance are very strong bases for this poem.According to Harjo, in this world, one can easily forget about ones heritage. What I am telling you is real, and is printed in a warning on the map. Our forgetfulness stalks us, walks the earth behind us, leaving a trail of paper diapers, needles and wasted blood. Harjo emphasizes the function of endurance in the entire scheme of things, for keeping ones spirit honest and vital.There seems to be a sense of loss of land, love, innocence and heritage that escalates within. She discusses the importance of courage by alluding to many Native American spiritual tremors The place of entry is the se a of your mothers blood, your fathers small death as he longs to know himself in another. There has to be an understanding of the past for one to be able to move forward.This discipline is central to many Native American cultures. In this case, Harjo alludes to her mothers heritage (her blood), and how her father was lost in a sea of identities.There is no exit., she says. One must have courage to fit. One must have courage to go on. One must have courage to be as tenacious as to fortuity out alone to be able to trust oneself. The map can be interpreted through the wall of the intestine a spiral on the road of nowledge.Coursing through survival and courage, Harjo moves in out of the realms of dream and reality. She focuses on both hope and despair, and survival and extinction at the same time. By showcasing these diverse strands of life, she is able to bring a harmonious balanced experience to the reader in the context of ethnic allusions.You will travel through the membrane o f death, smell cooking from the encampment where our relatives make a fest of fresh deer meat and corn soup, in the Milky Way. In this passage, she focuses on the point that to survive this world, one must not forget. To go through life and remember, one must travel the way our forefathers did.Through the membrane of death reminds one of the cultural belief in reincarnation that through dying, one is born. Encampment fresh deer meat both paint the picture of a Native American village dinner together around a fire, feasting on the days hunt.This melding of dream visions, memories, myths and history promotes a centeredness in deep awe for the natural world (a very Native American ideology), where one should find solace in ones own heritage and mythology. But Harjo does not necessarily talk about her own heritage (Cherokee) alone, but includes other Native American tribal traditions.There are snippets of other traditions which she brings in as a way to universalize experiences. In a way, she is striving to resolve polarities to bring the world into a balance through the awareness of the unspoken superiority one feels as a bearer of ancient culture. All one has to do is remember They have never left us we abandoned them for science.