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 ====== Masset Mourning Songs ====== ====== Masset Mourning Songs ======
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 +{{ :alcheringa:1-2:masset_mouring_songs-from_alcheringa_1-2_summer-1971.pdf | alcheringa:1-2:masset_mouring_songs-from_alcheringa_1-2_summer-1971.pdf}}
  
 ====== Overview ====== ====== Overview ======
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 ====== Commentary ====== ====== Commentary ======
-The first song from 'mourning songs' collection is: +**The first song from 'mourning songs' collection is:** 
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 Hao gua dAñ qâ'gulAgî. Hao gua dAñ qâ'gulAgî.
  
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 Are you going down? Are you going down?
  
-The sun there is going down, dear,**+The sun there is going down, dear,
  
  
-Through his interlinear translations, Swanton arrives at the conclusion that the dead man is likened to the sun. The question mark alludes to an interrogative according to Hymes.  +**Through his interlinear translations, Swanton arrives at the conclusion that the dead man is likened to the sun. The question mark alludes to an interrogative according to Hymes.  
    
-In the following song:+In the following song:**
  
-**Qoangê'dAñ, qoangê'dAñ, qoya'sga+Qoangê'dAñ, qoangê'dAñ, qoya'sga
  
 It becomes too much, | it becomes too much, | dear. It becomes too much, | it becomes too much, | dear.
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 It becomes too much, it becomes too much, dear. It becomes too much, it becomes too much, dear.
  
-It becomes too much, it becomes too much, dear.**+It becomes too much, it becomes too much, dear.
  
  
-In his smooth translation, Swanton notes that the poet's grief is too great to bear. Notice how the line breaks and repetitions are aligned with the original.  +**In his smooth translation, Swanton notes that the poet's grief is too great to bear. Notice how the line breaks and repetitions are aligned with the original song texts. Also, the repeated lines structure is aesthetical, reinforcing reader's sympathy with the Native Americans' calamities.**  
  
 ====== Context ====== ====== Context ======
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 Bruno, John. "Haida Songs by John R. Swanton (1912)." //Sacred Texts.// 2010, https://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/index.htm Bruno, John. "Haida Songs by John R. Swanton (1912)." //Sacred Texts.// 2010, https://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/index.htm
  
 + --- //[[Kheiriyeh Ahmadi]] 2021/06/30 10:13//
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 +{{tag>[song oral Native-American Masset Alcheringa mourning death print Haida British-Columbia]}}

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