Thursday, 5 September 2013

How do you analyze the topic of each stanza in the poem "Without Hands" by Lorna Crozier?

You are
asking "how" to summarize Lorna Croizer's poem, "Without Hands."    For this
poem, I suggest you simply summarize what it is in each stanza that couldn't be done without
hands.

First, in case you are unaware, the poem was written to honor a
Chilean musician, Victor Jara, whose hands were smashed by soldiers to keep him from playing his
guitar to fellow prisoners while they were being kept in Santiago stadium.  After being
tortured, he and thousands of others were killed, Jara in September, 1973.


For your summary, I will list the broad categories written about in each stanza, and
leave the filling in of the details for you:

  1. Machines, eating
    utensils, babies, music, and plums
  2. Writers
  3. Family or
    domestic life
  4. The speaker's grandmother

The
final three stanzas are unified by the subjects I've listed.  In other words, everything
mentioned is an element of the subject I've listed.

The first stanza, though,
touches on all five subjects listed. 

To summarize, simply write in your own
words the subjects I've listed, in sentence form, of course, and fill in the most important
details from each stanza.  For instance, a brief listing of the things a writer could not write
about without hands for the second stanza would constitute a summary of that
stanza. 

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