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    A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "A Simile"
    A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "A Simile"
    A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "A Simile"
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    A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "A Simile"

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    A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "A Simile," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535817219
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      A Study Guide for N. Scott Momaday's "A Simile" - Gale

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      A Simile

      N. Scott Momaday

      1960

      Introduction

      A Simile is one of Native American poet and novelist N. Scott Momaday's earliest published poems. He wrote it during his first year in the creative writing graduate program at Stanford University, and it was one of thirteen poems submitted for his masterApos;s degree in 1960. It was first published in the magazine Sequoia that same year. Momaday included the poem in his first poetry collection, Angle of Geese and Other Poems, in 1974, and he republished it two years later in The Gourd Dancer. Both these books are now out of print, but the poem also appears in Momaday's In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems (1992), and in two anthologies, Compact Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, 7th ed., edited by Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell (Cengage Learning, 2010) and The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry, edited by Robert DiYanni (McGraw-Hill, 1993).

      A Simile is a free-verse poem of only eight short lines in which the poet, by using a simile drawn from his observation of several deer, reflects on a change that has taken place in a close human relationship. The poem is notable both for its observation of the natural world and for its thought-provoking question about the world of human emotions and

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