Jane Shore's High Holy Day

Like a template. Every family had to have one of these. Families during this time did not bond or grow up together, but had been brought and constructed. Another example of sexism can be found in stanza five, as Dawe says, ‘’… and then it was goodbye stars and the soft/ cry in the corner when no one was looking…’’ This shows the audience that in this society, during this time period, men were also stereotyped as they were not allowed to cry. They DO NOT cry.

In the opening, she shares her childhood encounters with women in prose with the children’s rhyme “a little girl who had a curl”. This personal anecdote introduces the topic of the portrayal of women in literature, as well as establishes a connection with her audience.

The little child “she”who is in vague identity runs through this poem. From the poem “but I was talking

4. Do you assume the mason/carpenter/wood-cutter is a man or a woman? How come? In my opinion, they were all probably men because the poem was written in 1860 and during this time not many women could be seen doing these kind of jobs. Women would oftentimes sew, wash clothes, cook, and take care of the family. It also says the word “his” after introducing them.

The speaker is the voice of the poem, since “I” is used alot in this poem, it is in first person. I imagined the speaker’s

The main idea that Jane Shore is making in "High Holy Days" is that the child or young teenager is a "Chosen One," (line 54) and she must free the Jews from Anti-Semitism and the Nazis just as Moses saved the Israelites from the Egyptians. She had no idea she was going to be the chosen one just as Moses did not. Moses was lost too just like she was before God helped him find his way. Jane Shore uses diction, tone, and imagery in order to convey the main idea.

First, the setting of the poem is “in east Chicago” (Kelly 140). Second, the line “she is a woman of children, of the baby Carlos” connects with the image she had of the women rocking the baby. (Kelly 140). Throughout the poem, Harjo makes many references to children, which ties them to the children she imagined rocking in the chair. Third, Harjo makes the remark that the women who is hanging from the window could have been in the chair. Harjo puts this idea into the poem by writing, “it was in the farther north and she was the baby then. They rocked her” (Kelly 140). The women from the poem who is hanging could have been in the chair moments before, remembering when she was a child being comforted. Ultimately, if Harjo had not been a Native American she would not have been at the urban Indian center, which inspired her to create the poem. Native American women and their struggles would not have affected her. However, Harjo says, “I always write with especially these women in mind because I want us all to know as women, as Indian people, as human beings, that there is always hope, that we are whole, alive, and precious” (Harjo 40). Harjo, a Native American woman that with her experience was able to create two relatable personas that spoke to Native American

The reader gets a vibe that she is young and possibly naïve. She is very observant and even gives the harsh details: “Broken bottles were embedded in the walls around the house to scoop the kneecaps from a man’s legs or cut his hands to lace” (Lines 7-9). She sees things clearly without any cloud of her own personal judgment. At this point in the poem, the narrator is simply telling the story. Nothing really appears to be significant about her.

In the second stanza “Say Your Wife! So your confidence grows” classifies “you” as the husband and “she” as the husband’s wife. This is because earlier “she” is associated with wearing a short black slip and red lipstick, which are clothes a female would wear and “you” calls her “Your wife!” thus considering “she” as the wife. Finally, the speaker of the poem is not clearly identified but can be assumed to be one of the husband’s

The speaker starts the poem in second person then switches to first person point of view to show a change in tone and meaning. At the beginning, the speaker is talking to her aborted child, she says to the child that “[y]ou will never neglect or beat them…” (5). The

The poem then transitions to the post-marriage life of the couple in stanza two. In lines eight through ten, the speaker states that she is too shy around her husband. Not only does she not smile, but also she does not answer her husband when he calls her. This shows that the speaker's life took a great emotional transition, as she is overly shy and feels uncomfortable around him. However, around the middle of the second stanza, the speaker transitions into another stage of

The author uses biblical imagery to successfully convey the main idea of “High Holy Days.” The speaker is a young girl who has a deep desire to uplift her people despite her not understanding why hatred exists towards the Jews. Shore uses imagery to enable the reader to peer through the speaker’s eyes and see into the

In the poem, the main character is a young girl, who seems to be unhappy with her father’s words towards women.

To begin with, the author’s implementation of short sentence fragments throughout the poem illustrates the exasperation and frustration bottled up in women in response to

The speaker of the poem is a character who is retelling a story that they have heard from someone else. As for the story, the characters are the ten surviving crew members of the Nancy Bell ship which include the man, the cook, the captain, a shipmate, a boatswain, a midshipman, and the captain’s gig crew. The setting took place on the shore from Deal to Ramsgate in the beginning with the narrator and then in the Indian Sea for the rest of the story where the characters were stranded. The story is fictional since it is not based on