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| ==== Overview ==== | ==== Overview ==== |
| "Planting Song" is an Osage poem. Within the editorial notes, it states, "In a sound translation this song would have eleven four-line stanzas." Therefore, Tedlock translates the poem as a concrete piece visualizing a plant instead of the linear eleven stanza piece. The poem is visually symmetrical; the stalk and leaves protrude out from the ground while the roots are equally represented below the ground. The line "I make a footprint" repeats 36 times which clearly is used to emphasize the overall theme of the poem. | "Planting Song" is an Osage poem. Within the editorial notes, it states, "In a sound translation this song would have eleven four-line stanzas." Therefore, Barbara Tedlock translates the poem as a concrete piece visualizing a plant instead of the linear eleven stanza piece. The poem is visually symmetrical; the stalk and leaves protrude out from the ground while the roots are equally represented below the ground. The line "I make a footprint" repeats 36 times which clearly is used to emphasize the overall theme of the poem. |
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| | Barbara Tedlock is a professor of anthropology. Her husband Dennis Tedlock is one of the editors of //Alcheringa// in which this poem appears. |
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| ==== Commentary ==== | ==== Commentary ==== |
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| ==== Bibliography ==== | ==== Bibliography ==== |
| | //Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution//, 36th, U. S. Govt. Print. Off, 1895, https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/annualreportofbu36smithso |
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| Burns, Louis Francis. //Osage Indian Bands and Clans//. United States, Clearfield, 2001. | Burns, Louis Francis. //Osage Indian Bands and Clans//. United States, Clearfield, 2001. |
| Osage Nation. “Planting Song.” //Alcheringa First Series//, Translated by Barbara Tedlock and edited by Dennis Tedlock and Jerome Rothenberg, vol. 1, no. 2, 1976, pp. 35. https://media.sas.upenn.edu/jacket2/pdf/reissues/alcheringa/Alcheringa_1-2_Summer-1971.pdf. | Osage Nation. “Planting Song.” //Alcheringa First Series//, Translated by Barbara Tedlock and edited by Dennis Tedlock and Jerome Rothenberg, vol. 1, no. 2, 1976, pp. 35. https://media.sas.upenn.edu/jacket2/pdf/reissues/alcheringa/Alcheringa_1-2_Summer-1971.pdf. |
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