in Joy Harjo's "New Orleans", the line "beaten silver paths" refers to the streets of such city. She remembers of certain Spanish conqueror, De Soto,who came to this lands searching for, and constantly states that he wouldn't find it here. Maybe is a mock to that fact.
The "silver blades and crosses" refers to the sword and crucifix of the conqueror, who drawn in the Mississippi river which dreamt of those items. Maybe this means that the streets of New Orleans were made of the things and dreams of the many conquerors who came to that land in search for gold and failed.
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The modernist work which makes use of the "stream of consciousness" is the book written by "sound and the fury" which is composed by an American writer William Faulkner. A number of fictional forms are used which includes the stream of awareness. The year which it was written in the year 1929. The "stream of consciousness" is used because of the better plot construction. The author makes the readers understand the mind and the thought process of the character.
