Summary Of The Poem Remember By Joy Harjo

Have you ever read something or have done something without knowing the true meaning? In the story "Remember" by Joy Harjo has more meaning behind what it says. Every line in the poem has an even deeper meaning in every word, line, and sentence and the more you read and actually look into it the more you understand the context behind the words. Lots of people do something or read something without thinking about what they have done, they don’t understand the essence of it. If they took the second to stop and consider about what they’ve done it will give them a better understanding to everything they do in life.
In his groundbreaking and amazing work, Joy Harjo wrote an amazing poem, . In the poem the author is telling us to keep in mind and …show more content…
The main figure of speech that is used throughout the whole poem would be repetition. From the first line to the last line almost all of them start with "Remember". This figure of speech tells us that the author is telling us to remember everything from the past, the present, and the future. The author used it, in the same way, he tells us it, he is using it to tell us to remember another figurative language used in the poem was personification. An example of a personification in the story would be when the author, Joy Harjo, says "Remember the moon, know who she is. I met her in a bar once in Iowa City." The reason it’s a personification is because they are talking about the moon as if she was a girl that someone met at a bar and a personification is when they talk about a person or personal feeling is used as a thing or an idea and in the story she uses the moon as a lady. Those are two of the many figurative languages in the …show more content…
Not everyone gets the meaning to the poem and what it says, it 's only the ones who take the time who take the time to read it carefully and truly understand the meaning.The ones that understand the meaning don 't always get the same meaning, that doesn 't mean they 're wrong though, it just means that someone got something else out of it than you did. The writer Joy Harjo was trying to say that you need to remember events from the past, the present, and the future. He doesn 't tell you right away in those certain words. With in the poem are the meanings and those meanings tell you what he 's trying say, that you should remember the past, the present, and the future. Another important meaning to this poem is what is symbolizes. The poem represents a number of symbols and each symbol has a meaning has a number of symbols depending on the person and what he gets from it, in meaning terms. Joy Harjo discusses this point in his poem ¨Remember¨, where he says ( In line 8-10 ) ¨Remember your birth how your mother struggled to give you form and breath. You are evidence of her life, and her mothers, and hers. This is a real life situation everyone can to this because everyone has a mother and everyone gives meaning to her. What we can learn from this is never take your life for granted you always mean something to someone and you always give