Clark 1 Brandi Clark Megan Weaver MWF 9 9:50 October 23, 2013

Poems have played a major role in the past two years of my life. They have allowed me to express myself and work out emotions I never knew I had. Ive chosen to write a poem because it allows the reader to understand the inner turmoil an Indian must go through on a day to day basis. In order to recreate the genre I must first reinforce the direct information and message my original text displayed. I have used brown construction paper with burned edges and holes to mimic an old piece of leaf the Indian tribe has written on in order to accomplish this. I burned and smudged a black crayon to write the title and the lines of the poem. Ive also used a permanent marker to write the stanzas to portray that its been recorded with ashes from a fire. I came up with the idea to use imagery words that are carefully placed to show how my coherent statement has evolved. I will recreate the genre by elaborating on the rhetorical elements of subject, audience and purpose and how they reinforce and broaden my original text. For more people to understand the misery, loss, and pain the Cherokees deal with on a day to day basis I have converted my original text of an image into a poem from the Cherokee tribes perspective. Ive intertwined the elements of subject and audience by changing the focal point of the two adult male Indians sitting in front of a stair case to the title American Made. By doing this I have completely opened my audience up to anyone who would be attracted to something made by Americans, some would say home grown. The title being the largest letters with the most smudges attracts the eye and invites the mind to wonder who wrote this. It draws in all of

society, especially in todays world because most things are made in China. It also helps the reader become curious about the Indian culture and become aware of the problem. It shows how the poem has broadened my original text because its reaching more people and informing them on the separation that occurs today. The carefully picked words that show feeling and have deep underlying meaning reinforce my original purpose. Golden eagles represent blessings in the Cherokee Nation, wolves stand for teaching, guiding, and finding direction within oneself, and fire represents the creation of all things because without it we have nothing. The most important line in the poem is, American people hungry for gold. Eagles, wolves, and fires are sold. This line ripens my original purpose of Indian exploitation by helping the reader understand that all of who they are as a tribe has been ripped away from them for the betterment of the white Americans. By using imagery words like, golden eagles, howling wolves, and roaring fires I have given the audience guidelines to follow in their own mental picture of what happened. Another example, instead of using the boy in the window, I use the line Tourists gawk like were from outer space, In all reality Americas our birthplace. Compared to the main focal point of Indian formal wear in my original text, it has evolved so that the reader can feel how the Indians struggle on a day to day basis opposed to just catching onto the idea of pain and suffering. This broadens the original text and once again touches on the pathos of the audience. I have successfully revised my original text of an image into a new genre of a poem. I have chosen a poem because they are usually written with lots of emotion and the character jumps out of the words. All of these additional rhetorical elements have allowed me to let the audience open up their own mind while at the same time giving them guidelines to follow. The feelings and inner struggles the tribe goes through is greatly shown by the rhyming words and to

the point sentences. This poem has reached a brand new spectrum of audience, has stated a more refined purpose and has geared the subject to better suit the message.