in Joy Harjo's "New Orleans", the line "beaten silver paths" refers to the streets of such city. She remembers of certain Spanish conqueror, De Soto,who came to this lands searching for, and constantly states that he wouldn't find it here. Maybe is a mock to that fact.
The "silver blades and crosses" refers to the sword and crucifix of the conqueror, who drawn in the Mississippi river which dreamt of those items. Maybe this means that the streets of New Orleans were made of the things and dreams of the many conquerors who came to that land in search for gold and failed.
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The tone of a poem reveals the speaker's attitude towards the subject of the poem and towards its audience. In poems, the tone is indicated by using figures of speech, rhyme, sentence structure, and imagery.
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I don't have any text to use as evidence so that's the best I can give you. :(
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to do something without believing it is important: After his wife died, he went through the motions of living without really feeling anything.
Okay, Ok, and O.K. are all acceptable spelling of "ok"
