Literature: The Mirror of Human Spirit

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He is comparing this transformation to the ruin of the black man; once something to be admired but now torn apart by society. In the Native American poem "Deer Dance", Linda Hogan describes a people ashamed of their lives. Hogan refers to past mythologies where humans were transformed into animals: the travelers Circe turned into pigs, the woman who became the bear, the girl who always remained the child of wolves, none of them wanted to go back to being human...
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(Hogan 1) She is suggesting that by taking animal form these Native Americans had bettered themselves. This poem deals with the fellowship aspect of human spirituality. The Indians believed the animal to be a purer form of themselves. These beliefs were based on past written works and religious stories that had been passed down to them...
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