Essential Question 1- What can the poem teach us about the value of land and place? 2- What does the poem say about the value of the natural world? *** Provide the supporting explanation and examples from the poem for your comments

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Essential Question

1- What can the poem teach us about the value of land and place?

2- What does the poem say about the value of the natural world?

*** Provide the supporting explanation and examples from the poem for your comments.

Paul Lake Evening

By Richard Wagamese

 

loon call wobbles over wind 

eased through the gap between mountains 

the lake set down aglitter 

like a bowl of quartz winking 

in the last frail light of sun 

pushing colours around the sky 

 

to sit here is to see this country 

the way a blind man sees 

the feeling of it all 

pushed up hard against you 

insistent as a child's hand 

tugging at your sleeve 

 

the Old Ones say  

that everything is energy 

and we're part of it 

whether we know it or not 

 

in the sky are pieces of me 

 

we are the grass  

alive with dancing 

we are the stone 

vigilant and strong 

we are the birds 

ancient with singing 

 

the flesh of us 

hand in hand, you and I 

the whole wide world