Discussion Forum
The comments should add to the discussion, not simply agree or disagree, or reiterate what has already been said.
For this week’s discussion, please respond to the following question. Use the text to support your response, and conclude your response with your own question.
Question:
“Sometimes their light is sick and they want to infect you with it, clawing you downwards in desperate attempt to create safety in numbers. Sometimes the eyes are dead and the light is dead and they are only a body. These are the truly dangerous ones, because there is room for a lost spirit to come and enter their vessel to use it to carry out the spirit’s own agenda. Steer clear of these ones. Do not spend too much time around them, because Time is shifting; the trajectory of our meagre existence is mapped out in energetic arteries. The dangerous ones can colour you. They can change your path” (Tagaq 52).
Question:
What is Tagaq talking about here? How does this perspective show up in elements of today’s society (and interactions with people) and how does this idea relate to Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb”?
