We+Are+More

=**Assignment: Describe what the poem means to you. Discuss the use of metaphor to create analogies in the mind of the listener. How does the impact of this poem change when you hear it as apposed to reading it? Use specific examples from the text.** =

To me this poem means many things, but the two things that stuck out to me, were how our country is stereotyped almost all the time, and also how it is full of many different cultures. "But we're more than just hockey and fishing lines" this line is talking about how we are stereotyped, because even though we come from a colder place than other parts in the world, it doesn't mean that we don't do other things. "We are the brightness of Chinatown and the laughter of Little Italy" this line talks about how we don't just have one culture, we have many many more, and that we don't mind sharing our country with other unique cultures. Once hearing the poem, instead of reading it, I found that it made a bigger impact, because his voice changed, which made a bigger effect, and he would pause after every line which would make us listeners think about what he had just said even more, and realize that we should appreciate our country more. When reading it, you don't really spend the time to stop and think about it, and do not hear the way the poet is trying to make it sound.

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