Jesse Franco

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By:

Jesse Tuzi

&Franco Martire


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Biography of Wayne KeonWayne Keon was born in 1946 in Pembroke, Ontario. His father,

Orville Keon worked at Denison Mines in Elliot Lake, where Keon grewup. Although his father only had a 6th grade education, he was a skilledstoryteller and presented the young Keon with a gift of the complete

works of W. B. Yeats. Even since he was twelve years old, Keon wrote.Keon earned a business administration degree from the Northern

Institute of Technology in Kirkland Lake, Ontario in 1969. He has abackground as a financial analyst. He worked for Rio Algom, Ltd. and

was able to travel extensive including to South America. The companyencourages Keon's writing and has given their South Americancolleagues studying English copies of his books.

Keon has read his poetry in Canada, the United States, andthroughout Europe. Currently, he lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario.His work is characterized by his enigmatic and unique spelling, forinstance, "nd" instead of "and.


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the apocalypse will beginandwe'll conveneagain all rightand itll be nothing

like you could ever imagineand there wont be any petitionsseeking permission from anyonetherell just be medicine wheels and dream catcher ringseverywhere and blow-outs thatll start to make oklahoma

look likea saturday afternoon tea and nostalgia to get backto something less onerous like maybe the littlebig horn lyin in the

dust


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but

the claws

of the melodious birds

will be at your throat caressingthe chords and veins to choke out that

warbler sound and have you trill as sweet

as any song bird ever could

because this aint gonnabe no picnic bein

force fed

like


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this

so get

ready for

that elixir so wildand free and sweet that

youll never go back, never again,

to the way you used to be


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The tone of the poem is anger, the author writes very angrily andfiercely towards the topic of how when something happens to

aboriginal people, people just forget about it, but when it happens

to normal white society people make a big deal out of it.

The theme of the poem is revenge. Revenge is shownthroughout the poem, such as when the author writestherell just be medicine wheels and dream catcherrings everywhere and blow-outs thatll start to makeoklahoma look like a saturday afternoon tea andnostalgia to get back to something less onerous like

maybe the little big horn lyin in the dust. This shoesthat he wants to get a back at someone or somethingfor something that had happened in the past.


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the apocalypse will begin

andwe'll conveneagain all rightand itll be nothing

like you could ever imagineand there wont be any petitionsseeking permission from anyonetherell just be medicine wheels and dream catcher ringseverywhere and blow-outs thatll start to make oklahoma

look likea saturday afternoon tea and nostalgia to get backto something less onerous like maybe the littlebig horn lyin in the

dust

Free Verse Poem

Onerous: Causing Hardship, burdensome, or troublesome

Convene: Come together or assemble

Nostalgia: A wistful desireto return to a time in oneones past

Euphemism: A substitution of a word or phrasefor a different one Imagery

Historical Allusion:

A casual reference tosomething that hashappened in the past

Historical Allusion: A casualreference to something thathas happened in the past

Simile: Figure of speech, which twounlike things are compared


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but

the claws

of the melodious birds

will be at your throat caressingthe chords and veins to choke out that

warbler sound and have you trill as sweet

as any song bird ever could

because this aint gonnabe no picnic bein

force fed

like

Caressing: To pat or touch gently , to showaffection

Warbler: A small songbird in the old world

Trill: To sing with a quavering affect

Euphemism: A substitution of a word orphrase for a different one

Imagery

Imagery

Enjambment: Running on of a thoughtfrom one stanza to another


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this

so get

ready for

that elixir so wildand free and sweet that

youll never go back, never again,

to the way you used to be

Repetition

Elixir: A cure for all


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Question #1Why does the poet juxtapose the sweet song of the

birds to the choking of the same birds?


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Question #2Why is there a lack of punctuation in the poem? Why

is there two commas at the end?


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Question #3Why is there no capital letters in this poem?


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Question #4 Do you feel the speakers revenge is justified?


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Question#5Why did he include historical allusions in the poem?

What purpose do they serve?


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