Compare and contrast the poem "If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart" by Billy-Ray Belcourt with the CBC news article . What characteristics do they share? What is different about the language, content, and themes? You may want to consider juxtaposing the type and use of literary or rhetorical devices, the connotation and denotation of the diction, and the type and impact of the imagery in the texts.

 

Answer:

"If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart" is a poem that reports the case of an accident and how it happened. It explicates the case of Barbara Kentner, 34, who was hit in the stomach by a trailer, the sister was the witness of the case. In the same manner, to the CBC news where they find the incidents that have happened in the city and report. Both use the past tense language because it is for the incidents that have happened, in both the poem and the articles, some witnesses give them the information to write. THE CBC reported the case to the police and did not investigate the assault as a hate crime reason being that there was no comment about ethnicity or race. Oh, i got one! Is basic syntax one is the object, and she is at the mercy of the i. markedly, it is semiotic of indigeneity that roots people to death worlds, and grammar is excited with violence.

it is palpable to note that both have been reporting the case but CBC evinces high degree of discrimination based on ethnicity and race.