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    A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Four Mountain Wolves"
    A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Four Mountain Wolves"
    A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Four Mountain Wolves"
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    A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Four Mountain Wolves"

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    A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Four Mountain Wolves," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535823630
    A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Four Mountain Wolves"

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      Four Mountain Wolves

      Leslie Marmon Silko

      1975

      Introduction

      Four Mountain Wolves by Leslie Marmon Silko is an excellent example of the work that has emerged from the recent Native American Literary Renaissance. Silko, along with Louise Erdrich, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and others, is a representative figure of this renaissance, in which the writers meld Western and Native American literary techniques, themes, and subject matter. Silko’s poem, which originally appeared in the anthology Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Native American Poetry (1975), immerses the reader into nature. In the wintry mountains of New Mexico, the narrator of the poem watches four different wolves, each representing different aspects of the natural and spiritual world, travel from the northeast. The poem combines a modernist-influenced free verse structure with a quiet, almost chant-like feel. Silko’s Laguna Pueblo heritage comes out both in the form and the content of the poem, but the poem is not only interesting for its Native Americanness: it is a poem that beautifully evokes a natural setting and gives us a close, almost frightening, but still respectful perspective on an animal that has always represented fear and threat to

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