We+Are+More

=** Assignment: Describe what the poem means to you. Discuss the use of metaphor to create analogies in the mind of the listener. How does the impact of this poem change when you hear it as apposed to reading it? Use specific examples from the text. **=

﻿I'm not sure what this poem exactly means to me, but it does mean something. I don't really think that I can describe it because I can't figure out myself what it makes me feel. I guess it makes me think of the different things about Canada and how they're connected to me, if you know what I mean. An example is when in the ninth stanza it says, "We dream so big that there are those who would call our ambition an industry". I can relate to this because I dream really big. Big as in huge. If you ask almost anyone I know they'll tell you this because they've heard some of my crazy ideas. I can also relate to what it says in stanza 6, "We are young, we are cultures strung together then woven into a tapestry and the design is what makes us more than the sum total history". I can relate to this because my family isn't originally from Canada. Some of the families of my friends aren't either. This stanza just shows that even if we come from different backgrounds, we've all come together as one to make Canada, our new home, a better place for everyone. The impact of this poem changes from when I hear it and see it apposed to just reading it because I can see how the writer meant it to be. The writer pauses in different places; places that aren't marked in the written version. I can see the poem how the author interprets it. An example is how he uses his hands to emphasize different parts of the peom. An example of the use of metaphors creating analogies in my head is (from stanza 17), "So don't let your luggage define your travels". Some analogies that it creates include that the past of some people isn't that good so leave them behind and don't let that influence where you can or can't go and if something happened in the past that didn;t turn out as good as it could have don't let that be the reason that you're holding back [to go to different places].

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