Analysis Of The Woman Hanging From The 13th Floor Window

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Joy Harjo’s “The Woman Hanging from the 13th Floor Window” Joy Harjo is a really known author who likes to write about women with some of her Native American writing. She is more direct than other writers like Wendy Rose, but still has that cryptic way of teaching yet easier to understand. Which is something I particularly like. her style of writing is, like I said before, Indirect but still direct, for example at the end of the “Hanging from the 13th floor” Joy Harjo says, “ as she falls from the 13th floor window on the side of Chicago, or as she climbs back up to claim herself again” (Rose 70-74) In here she says something deep yet simple, to give up or go back; and that’s what I like about this writer’s style, the easy to understand writing with a small dash of crypticism. Another example can be Harjo’s “The blanket around her”, this whole poem …show more content…

“ maybe it is her birth which she holds close to herself for her death which is just as inseparable and the white wind that encircles her is a part just as the blue sky hanging in turquoise from her neck oh woman remember who you are woman it is the whole earth”(1-12). This poem besides being short it gives a brobdingnagian message which for me the blanket means memories, which this particular authors writes about, as memories is used for the

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