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Captivity

Louise Erdrich, the author of the famous poem titled Captivity, tells a story about a married mother who has been held captive by a tribe of Indians. The poem uses a wide variety of literary elements such as sympathy, guilt, submissiveness, and tentativeness. The two main themes of this first person, six-stanza poem, are love and fear. Erdrich also uses tricksters, which are supernatural characters found in the folklores of various primitive peoples. They often function as culture heroes who are given acts of sly deception. In this poem, the narrator’s captor takes on the role of a trickster. In most of Erdrich’s writings, she uses multiple characters as tricksters and this reflects on her Native American Heritage (Smith 23).

One of Erdrich’s main writing tactics is the use of “historical ‘captivity narratives’” (Wilson and Jason 2716). One of the interesting facts about this poem is that it is based upon a true story. Erdrich gives us that feeling of truth and captivity before the poem begins. “He (my captor) gave me a bisquit, which I had put in my pocket, and not daring to eat it, buried it under a log, fearing he had put something in it to make me love him,” (Erdrich, 26). This quote came “from the narrative of th

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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