Pocahontas A Poem eBook Virginia Carter Castleman
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A rather short narrative poem telling us the story of Pocahontas, the Indian Princess who saved John Smith, the founder of Jamestown and the first colony in Virginia, from hostile Indians and married John Rolfe, the first tobacco-grower in Virginia. They had some descendants, a son and a daughter, it is said, who multiplied within the American society. Many women are justified because of it to wear the name of Pocahontas, including the wife of a President.The poem is short and does not give many details about the real events.
It is deeply romantic due to the period when it was composed. The biography of the author is telling us a lot about the lady. Born in Herndon, Virginia, in 1864 when the Civil War was coming to a final defeat for the South. She was educated at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. She will only return to Virginia around 1904 after working in Pennsylvania, Washington D.C. and Idaho. She comes back to her birth town and dies there in 1937. Pocahontas is one of the books she wrote and published.
In a way it is a poem for children or high school students who can believe in love and suspend their disbelief long enough to accept some miraculous turning points.
A strong emphasis is set on the description of nature seen as some kind of peaceful heavenly environment for a beautiful love story with many twists, since Pocahontas did not marry John Smith she saved and loved dearly, but, believing John Smith was dead she married John Rolfe who was to start the tobacco industry in Virginia which will imply no peaceful transition with the Indians and for the Indians because the land will have to be taken and some slave labor will have to be brought from Africa. That of course is beyond the scope of the poem.
The form is naïve and rather simple in unrhymed pentameters but at times the archaic supposedly poetic form that inverts the order of words is more than surprising, slightly irritating, for example "the monarch proud", "my Captain bold", "in Jamestown far".
There is though a modern touch in the poem in some descriptions of Pocahontas. When Pocahontas explains to John Rolfe: "Once did I know not difference / `Twixt the Red Man's squaw, the White Man's honored wife..." Modern because speaking of the condition of women in Indian and white societies, but obviously schematic on the Indian side towards the negative and schematic on the white side towards the laudatory. She explains the squaw is a plaything in Indian society. Maybe so, but is it that better in 19th century European society? What's more the language of this quotation is gibberish. Could do better.
What is essential here is that it is part of the rehabilitation of Pocahontas in American society. That could only happen after the genocidal extermination of most of Indians, the banning of survivors to reservations and the beginning of the desperate search for roots in the South after the Civil War. They do find some roots in some embellished old episodes concerning mythicized Indians. In fact it will take one more century to realize that the majority of the totally rejected Blacks in this South, in this poem (they are not even mentioned) and in this period (post Civil War period and beginning of the 20th century) carry in their veins Indian blood. An interesting rediscovery about Black Indians, but here we only deal with White Indians.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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A rather short narrative poem telling us the story of Pocahontas, the Indian Princess who saved John Smith, the founder of Jamestown and the first colony in Virginia, from hostile Indians and married John Rolfe, the first tobacco-grower in Virginia. They had some descendants, a son and a daughter, it is said, who multiplied within the American society. Many women are justified because of it to wear the name of Pocahontas, including the wife of a President.
The poem is short and does not give many details about the real events.
It is deeply romantic due to the period when it was composed. The biography of the author is telling us a lot about the lady. Born in Herndon, Virginia, in 1864 when the Civil War was coming to a final defeat for the South. She was educated at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. She will only return to Virginia around 1904 after working in Pennsylvania, Washington D.C. and Idaho. She comes back to her birth town and dies there in 1937. Pocahontas is one of the books she wrote and published.
In a way it is a poem for children or high school students who can believe in love and suspend their disbelief long enough to accept some miraculous turning points.
A strong emphasis is set on the description of nature seen as some kind of peaceful heavenly environment for a beautiful love story with many twists, since Pocahontas did not marry John Smith she saved and loved dearly, but, believing John Smith was dead she married John Rolfe who was to start the tobacco industry in Virginia which will imply no peaceful transition with the Indians and for the Indians because the land will have to be taken and some slave labor will have to be brought from Africa. That of course is beyond the scope of the poem.
The form is naïve and rather simple in unrhymed pentameters but at times the archaic supposedly poetic form that inverts the order of words is more than surprising, slightly irritating, for example "the monarch proud", "my Captain bold", "in Jamestown far".
There is though a modern touch in the poem in some descriptions of Pocahontas. When Pocahontas explains to John Rolfe "Once did I know not difference / `Twixt the Red Man's squaw, the White Man's honored wife..." Modern because speaking of the condition of women in Indian and white societies, but obviously schematic on the Indian side towards the negative and schematic on the white side towards the laudatory. She explains the squaw is a plaything in Indian society. Maybe so, but is it that better in 19th century European society? What's more the language of this quotation is gibberish. Could do better.
What is essential here is that it is part of the rehabilitation of Pocahontas in American society. That could only happen after the genocidal extermination of most of Indians, the banning of survivors to reservations and the beginning of the desperate search for roots in the South after the Civil War. They do find some roots in some embellished old episodes concerning mythicized Indians. In fact it will take one more century to realize that the majority of the totally rejected Blacks in this South, in this poem (they are not even mentioned) and in this period (post Civil War period and beginning of the 20th century) carry in their veins Indian blood. An interesting rediscovery about Black Indians, but here we only deal with White Indians.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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