A map to the next world

happiness Harjos poems are filled with so many images and passages that lets one ponder and think ab proscribed the complexity of the work. She is able to sense of balance contemporary Ameri great deal life and ancient tribal truths magnificently.She is able to brilliantly attach the reader to the character. In A Map to the future(a) creation, one knows that the poem is most probably addressed to a young member of her family, a young daughter, or a grand daughter, in fact. But 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 see how the idea of extract is central to the unmarried and the inherent Americans as a people. And the way she addresses this survival is by stress the importance of warehousing (a very central theme in Native American culture) how one should non forget ones heritage.And she writes turn back track of the errors of our forgetfulness a fog steals our childr en while we sleep. She asks her readers to remember their heritage and find solacement in it to Remember the hole of our shame marking the act of abandoning our tribal grounds.The poem promotes an awareness and understanding of the intensity level of memory a latch on the value on the powers of memory that all Native American cultures rich person. 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 croup us, leaving a trail of paper diapers, needles and wasted blood. Harjo emphasizes the function of braveness in the entire scheme of things, for keeping ones face honest and vital. at that place 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 Am erican sacred tremors The place of entry is the sea of your overprotects blood, your fathers small death as he longs to know himself in an another(prenominal). There has to be an understanding of the past for one to be able to print 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 and only(a) must have courage to survive. One must have courage to go on. One must have courage to be as tenacious as to venture 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 trance and reality. She focuses on some(prenominal) hope and despair, and survival and extinction at the said(prenominal) time. By showcasing these diverse strands of life, she is able to bring a ha rmonious equilibrate experience to the reader in the context of cultural allusions.You will croak through the membrane of 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. by the membrane of death reminds one of the cultural belief in conversion that through dying, one is born. Encampment fresh deer meat both paint the picture of a Native American village dinner party together around a fire, feasting on the days hunt.This melding of dream visions, memories, myths and history promotes a centeredness in deep reverence for the pictorial 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 Nati ve 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 judge polarities to bring the world into a balance through the awareness of the inarticulate superiority one feels as a bearer of ancient culture. all told one has to do is remember They have never left us we abandoned them for science.