Personification is basically taking an inanimate object and describing it as something only living things can do.
Ex: The wind howled
The wind isn't alive, so it can't howl
“Concrete Mixers” by Patricia Hubbell compares concrete mixers to elephants to show humans have created relationships with their machines in much the same way as with animals under their care. The poet shows how the drivers of the concrete mixers wash and tend to their mixers just as the mahout take care of their elephants. This comparison is set up at the beginning of the poem with this simile: “Like elephant tenders they hose them down.” To continue this relationship, the poet describes the concrete drivers as “mahouts”, the name for people who take care of elephants in other countries. The poem also describes how the concrete mixers “stand in muck”, meaning that these machines are in muddy environments similar to the environments of elephants who stand in mud or muck.In the end the poet describes how the concrete mixers are like elephants working to do humans’ work by lifting, moving and helping to create new structures in a city. The poet uses several similes to describe concrete mixers as if they were alive: “Concrete mixers/Move like elephants/Bellow like elephants/Spray like elephants” She further strengthens the effect by writing that they “…are urban elephants/Their trunks are raising a city.” This metaphor means that just as elephants work for humans in
Poetry Collection 3 other countries, the machines in the poem are doing the labor of building a city. The poet uses the word “raising” to show that the city is being built up, becoming taller and taller with skyscrapers. Through the effective use of figurative language the poet shows how humans have begun to treat their machines as if they were living, breathing animal
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The basis for Harjo's argument is that the removal of Native American remains is destructive to the environment, as shown in the last answer option.
<h2>Why does Harjo use this argument?</h2>
- For Harjo, the Native American have already been heavily exploited by American society and this should not be repeated.
- He believes that indigenous people should have peace and respect even after their death and therefore their mortal remains should not be used in research or displayed in museums.
- This is because, in addition to disturbing the indigenous people, the extraction of mortal remains negatively impacts the environment.
With that, Harjo takes a stand against the removal of the indigenous remains.
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Nature is strong becasue she is able to control the cycle of life and is the stem of all living life. She is active in terms of always growing and accomidating towards life and intresting in her build up
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