This poem by Joy Harjo is full of allegory. She opens the poem with “There are strangers above me, below me, and all around me . . .” The word stranger is used through out the poem. The words she uses describe a world where consumerism has taken away from what is important. The best use of metaphors would be the crow. The crow represents the world of religious belief or myth and the world of the twenty-first century. The poem from the start give us the sense that what we read is bigger than words, it’s the way of the American people, and how we lose ourselves in the glitz and glamour. The tone of the poem is of someone that has been alienated and is disappointed in what has become of her land. To Harjo life has become a blur as she carefully
