A Culture Destroyed I think that Wendy Rose wrote this poem with such feeling it seems as if she were right there through all of the troubles that here ancestors went through. I could read the poem and I can feel everything that she was feeling and I could feel every word and very sentence. When I read this poem I started to think about the trials that my ancestors had to overcome to make it this harsh world. The poem “I Expected My Skin and My Blood to Ripen” is focusing on a culture being ripped from their land and their culture being destroyed. The people focused on in this poem are not offending anybody or doing anything to make anyone hate them. They are just treated like animals. For example, Rose starts the poem by writing “I expected my skin and my blood to ripen not be ripped from my bones”(569). When I read this I immediately thought tha....

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