Poet
What is the 'I Lost My Talk" poem's poet?
Rita Joe
What is the poems name?
I Lost My Talk
Like you
Like you
Like you
What is the poetic device in here?
Repetition
I lost my talk
The talk you took away
When I was a little girl,
At Shubenacadie School
What is the thing she tries to explain here?
She is explaining that she was taken away as a child and was forced to attend a residential school.
Where was Rita Joe from ( Grammar is not a problem)
Nova Scotia
What is the poem's theme? (One of them)
Restraint
Courage
The "scrambled ballad" what type of poetic device is it?
Metaphor
You snatched it away,
I speak like you
I think like you
I create like you
The scrambled ballad about my word,
What is the annotation here?
Rita refers to the white race, and white people when she says "You". She speaks, thinks, and creates just like the white people.
What is Rita Joe's nation? (Grammar is important)
Mi'kmaq
What was the purpose of the poem?
Overcrowding
Underfunding
Corporal Punishment
"At Shubenacadie School" What is the poetic device?
Allusion
Two ways I talk,
Both ways I say,
Your way is more powerful.
She comments her ability to speak both languages, however expresses that english is more powerful, since in the residential schools, it was forbidden for the aboriginal people to speak their own language.
How old was she when she was token for the residential school?
12
How many stanza does the poem have?
4
What does the "word" resemble?
Native tounge, culture etc.
So I gently offer my hand and ask,
Let me find my talk,
So I can teach you about me.
She offers to teach others, specifically white race, about her language and culture.
What was the residential school's name? (Grammar included)
Shubenacadie
What is the poem about?
Residential Schools and her experience in it.
I speak like you
I think like you
I create like you
What is the poetic device?
Parallelism