Summary Of Sam Hamill's The Gift Of Tongues

Sam Hamill’s The Gift of Tongues is a novel that offers wide variety of poetries from around the world. Out of all the poetries that were in this book, ten of these poems stood out to me. The reason why I chose these poems is that these poetries help’s you think life as a process of obstacles you will face. Throughout your life you will be faced with historical events that you may forget later on. When these things occur you should feel empathy towards these events because it will give you the ability to be the best person that you could possibly be. In the Forest, written by Heather Allen talks about the nature of the forest during the night time. The author describes the owls howling and how you can feel the twigs when you step on it. This makes me feel empathy towards the people that reside in the forest because I grew up mostly in the city and I do not get the experience to see nature during the night time because of the loud truck noises and the cars speeding through the streets John Haines Evening Change, takes you to Auschwitz concentration camp in WW2. She explains, “Beautiful light down there were the dark hills open toward the sea, and the promontory groves show like the ruined …show more content…
Missing the noise of the sea at night, I find it difficult to sleep. Difficult to be content with the tame sounds of human habitation: somebody’s dog barking, somebody’s door swinging to, a window raised in a nearby house, the hum and crunch of a passing car… and not long for the primitive rhythm of the rides, the peep of peewits, and the sound of the wind in the grass.” This poem resembles me at my first night in college, during the night time I kept hearing so much noises that I could not sleep. I consider somebody’s dog barking as a comparison of students being loud in the middle of the night and somebody’s dog barking as my roommate’s alarm