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Song of Becoming

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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SONG OF BECOMING

Fadwa Tuqan
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STRUCTURE

  • Long poem with more end-stopped lines than enjabment
  • Verse is free
  • There are 4 stanzas, # of lines in each stanza is different for each one
  • A couple quatrains
  • No end rhyme but theres scheme in one stanza
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STRUCTURE #2

  • The meter is iambic pentameter
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IMAGERY

"Their blue-red-green kites whistling, leaping..."
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NARRATIVE

"They're only boys, who used to frolic and play..."
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REPETITION

"And the moon's trail became bigger and bigger..."
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The narrator remembers two young boys who were so innocent, but then grew up and lost that innocence too fast in war. They became violent and angry, instead of playful and sweet, war stole their childhood. Now they don't ask for anything, not even their innocence back, except to be able to return home in peace.

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A related song is "Hero of War" by Rise Against

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Tuqan, Fadwa. "Song of Becoming." Trans. Naomi Shihab Nye. Reading the World: Contemporary Literature From Around the Globe. Ed. Carol Francis Logan, IA: Perfection Learning, 2012. eBook.

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BY ANGELINA URTIS

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