 | Albert E. Stone - 1982 - 372 էջ
...doubleness that marks his whole life. Equally powerful and poignant is his sense of failure: And I can see that something else died there in the bloody...people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth — you see me now a pitiful old man who has... | |
 | John Gneisenau Neihardt - 1985 - 496 էջ
...and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody...people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth, — you see me now a pitiful old man who has... | |
 | Black Elk - 1979 - 318 էջ
...and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody...people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth,—you see me now a pitiful old man who has... | |
 | Arnold Krupat - 1989 - 208 էջ
...great a vision was given in my youth,— you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is...no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead. 26 Yet, as we now know, this ending as well as the book's lovely beginning were not Black Elk's but... | |
 | G. Thomas Couser - 1989 - 298 էջ
...so great a vision was given in my youth—you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is...no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead (276). These paragraphs, however, like the first three, are Neihardt's creation, as are the attitude... | |
 | Paul A. Olson - 1990 - 340 էջ
...Indians in general and Plains Indians in particular. Black Elk is often quoted in this context: "And I can see that something else died there in the bloody...people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream. . . . And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth—you see me now a pitiful old man who... | |
 | Bonnie TuSmith - 1994 - 236 էջ
...Neihardt's collaboration. The lyrical conclusion of the book is Neihardt's, not Black Elk's: "... for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is...no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead." Stylistically, then, Momaday had to break out of Eurocentric literary conventions in order to tell... | |
 | Kenneth Keulman - 1993 - 248 էջ
...great a vision was given in my youth — you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.78 It is the end because the war is over and cannot be fought again. It is the end because the... | |
 | Kenneth S. Stern - 1994 - 390 էջ
...gnarled and hideous shapes. Many years later, as an old man, Indian spiritual leader Black Elk said, I did not know then how much was ended. When I look...There is no center any longer and the sacred tree is dead.1 "We are rekindling the dream," Dennis Banks said, in a speech in Nebraska, only weeks before... | |
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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young.... 
