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Battlefeild

Battlefeild. BY: MARK TURCOTTE POWERPOINT BY: TRAVIS WHITE. THE AURTHOR . Mark Turcotte grew up on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation, later he moved to Michigan, and then began to travel the world.

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Battlefeild

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  1. Battlefeild BY: MARK TURCOTTE POWERPOINT BY: TRAVIS WHITE

  2. THE AURTHOR • Mark Turcotte grew up on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation, later he moved to Michigan, and then began to travel the world. • Durning the spring , in 1993 Turcotte found his love for words again and ended up joining many other poets from Chicago. • Mark Turcotte also published “The Feathered Heart”, Songs of Our Ancestors, and Exploding Chippewa's. • An he also won the First Gwendolyn Brooks Open-mic Poetry Award.

  3. LITERARY AND POETIC ELEMENTS • This poem is a free verse poem meaning that there is no internal or external rhyme contained inside the poem itself. • BATTLEFEILD contains one stanza with 17 lines. • The literal thought of this poem is actually coneccted to Mark through his Indian background. The poem also contains flashbacks and could be old memories from Marks life. • I believe that the theme goes from the present time, to the past where he is at a bar, in the bar, in a Cadillac, and then in the hills • Alliteration and Imagery- imagery shown on next slide.

  4. IMAGERY • The whole poem contains imagery, all except for the first line which only says ”Back when I used to be Indian”. • I am standing outside the • pool hall with my sister. • She strawberry blonde. Stale sweat • and beer through the • open door. A warrior leans on his stick, • fingers blue with chalk. • Another bends to shoot. • His braids brush the green • felt, swinging to the beat • of the jukebox. We move away. • Hank Williams falls again • in the backseat of a Cadillac. • I look back. • A wind off the distant hills lifts my shirt, • brings the scent • of wounded horses.

  5. THE LITERAL MEANING • I see the whole story as a giant flashback showing things that may or may not have happened in Turcotte. Things like standing outside the pool hall with his sister, and Hank Williams falls again in the backseat of a Cadillac. This means that the literal meaning is mainly the flashbacks about his life.

  6. THEPOEM FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING • Back when I used to be Indian • I am standing outside the • pool hall with my sister. • She strawberry blonde. Stale sweat • and beer through the • open door. A warrior leans on his stick, • fingers blue with chalk. • Another bends to shoot. • His braids brush the green • felt, swinging to the beat • of the jukebox. We move away. • Hank Williams falls again • in the backseat of a Cadillac. • I look back. • A wind off the distant hills lifts my shirt, • brings the scent • of wounded horses.

  7. SOURCES • POETRYOUTLOUD.ORG • GAMEINSIDER.COM • POETRYFOUNDATION.ORG • GOOGLE.COM

  8. TANKS FOR WATCHING

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