Your western heads here cast on money,
You are the two that fade away together,
Partners in the mist.
Lunging buffalo shoulder,
Lean Indian face,
We who come after where you are gone
Salute your forms on the new nickel.
You are
To us:
The past.
Runners
On the prairie:
Good-by.
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I have found the use of 'Good-by' in many other works by other authors. I feel both are appropriate and apply.
This is a political piece. It's not subtle, it kind of waivers in and out of itself, but, it's political none-the-less.
I feel as well it is a bit historical in its content. I feel it is speaking about how only the 'New World America' had been present in life and the 'Old World America' was being destroyed. Here, it seems, that some leway was given, and the 'Old World' was allowed to embark upon the 'New World' even if slight.
That's the imagery and impressin that I have gotten from this piece. It is analytical as the above poster has stated.
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I've checked on several sites for the spelling Tina but found only 'Good-by'.
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Should it be "good-bye?" This seems to contain a lot of depth for such a short piece. Anyway, don't have anything else to add.
Didn't really do anything for me. Maybe its just my mood today.
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can't help but consider this as ... having an almots sad reservation. of course, i can't REALLY get a solid sense for tone from the words alone. in any case, i was moved by the brevity. as if all the indians were deserving of was a salutory (sp?) wave while they were disposessed of their homes and their cultures.
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A point of view of the time. Like Ginsberg's work this is also political, analytical, topical and editorial. Sacajawe's dollar coin of the Clinton era wasn't popular generally, yet the pastness aspect of Indians has faded, especially about gambling casinos.
The main point of the present era is that Indians are held by some not-to-bright-people to represent naturalism instead of blind mechanism, philosophical and economically, in a virtual Zoroastrian duality of good and evil, right and wrong, progress or silly hippieish/communist nativiness.
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