Miss Yu English 12

In "the Urban Indian" by Drew Hayden Taylor and "I Grew Up" by Lenore Keeshig-Tobias the Protagonist are both talks about their homeland. However, they are different in somewhere.       First, in the” I Grew Up" the speaker is love his homeland very much; it is filled with infinite devotion. Know across "thinking it was the most beautiful place in the world."(line1) In "The Urban Indian" the speaker was comfortable in the big city (Toronto), even he is want go back his homeland ("I could return to the community that spawned me.") (para13), but it is not fierceness.
Second, In the poem “I Grew Up" we can not know did he leave his homeland really, because he just said "I grew up thinking ' I'm never going to leave this place'.”(4-6) He said this when he just a child, it is not mean he will not leave here later. In "The Urban Indian" the speaker was leave his homeland and he was comfortable in Toronto. The mood is excited when I read "I Grew Up", and the mood of "The Urban Indian" is a little yearning.

1 What is the poem talking about?
The poem talks about how the experience influence your life.

2What does "Experience" mean in stanza one?
Experience in the first stanza is :
Others talk to you about their experience, however, you can not understand really. Experience need go through by you, because everyone is different. Only learn this from talking can not useable, it is not your own feeling and thinking.

3 What does "Experience" mean in stanza two?  Why would the narrator choose to experience the bitter and the sweet?
In the stanza two the experience is from you. You got go your own way. Go through by yourself and feeling by yourself. The experience is a important fortune. Bitter and sweet are contrary, but everyone should be going through this. You can know and cherish the sweat after you go through the bitter. Both sweet and bitter can make you know about your own life in the flesh.