Captivity

Louise Erdrich, the author of the famous poem titled Captivity, tells a story about a married mother who has been held captive by a tribe of Indians. The poem uses a wide variety of literary elements such as sympathy, guilt, submissiveness, and tentativeness. The two main themes of this first person, six-stanza poem, are love and fear. Erdrich also uses tricksters, which are supernatural characters found in the folklores of various primitive peoples. They often …showed first 75 words of 986 total…

…showed last 75 words of 986 total…background to describe some of the elements in the narrative poem. I agree with Claudia Egerer, author of Fiction (In)betweenness, when she describes the way that Erdrich writes fiction. “First person voices are construed as subjective, implicated as they are in the telling of their own story… their double function as narrators and narratees,” (59). Captivity reflects this exact statement. Without a doubt, Louise Erdrich creates life and history through Captivity and it’s complexity.