Simon Ortiz: Poetry Characters

Simon Ortiz: Poetry Character List

The Speaker - “Blind Curse”

The speaker in “Blind Curse” visualizes a temporal blindness (Spanning ‘two seconds’) that would come about while driving. The speaker envisages that the temporality of the blindness “would be forever.”

The Busted Boy - “The Busted Boy”

“The Busted Boy” is a black boy whose age ranges between fifteen and sixteen years. He is apprehended by ‘burly men’ who chain ‘him to the pole’. He is a casualty of police busting.

The Speaker - “The Busted Boy”

The speaker boards the same bus with “the busted boy.” He eyewitnesses how the boy is apprehended and restrained on a pole before he boards another bus.

The Speaker - “Culture and the Universe”

The speaker is deliberating the repercussions of culture. The speaker correlates the enormity of culture to the limitlessness of the canyon after exploring the canyon at night.

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