Poetry: Bone Poem

Question 0

What is the message of Bone Poem

Answer 0

Necessary relationship of the circle of life

• the hundred becomes the hunter (vice versa)
• earth is centre of all

Question 1

What is Bones Poem about?

Answer 1

Owl eating a rat/mouse

Question 2

Bone Poem theme: Earth is sacred

• explain
• use quote/ example

Answer 2

Language is used to praise or worship earth

- “protein, o hallowed lime”

Question 3

Bone Poem theme: circle of life

• explain
• use quote/ example

Answer 3

Start and end with owl = circular ‘plot’
- owl eats rat, owl and rat becomes one (“rat will learn to fly”), owl will be eaten, decomposes, eaten by rat and cycle continues

Question 4

Bone Poem theme: connection with time

• explain
• use quote/ example

Answer 4

Personified to make connection

• raises time to human importance
• “time sits with her slow spoon”

Question 5

Bone Poem theme: symbiotic

• explain
• use quote/ example

Answer 5

Symbiotic: mutually beneficial relationship between different organisms

• interconnection = everything is dependent on each other
• we are all one at death: “where we becomes singular”
  
  • rat and owl become one as rat is consumed by owl

Question 6

When was bone poem published and in what poetry collection?

Answer 6

1979 in twelve moons