1. Summarize what the poem "Not My Bones" by Marilyn Nelson is about.
2. By the end of the poem, what tone does the author display?
3. Provide the repetition that occurs in the poem, and explain its significance. (Hint: Think about the historical time period this may be connected to.)
4. What is the importance of the lines, "You can murder hope, you can pound faith flat, / but like weeds and wildflowers, they grow right back" (29-30)? What literary device is present in these lines?

Each night she lay down in pain and rose to the celluloid butterflies of her beloved dead, lenin and marx and stalin arrayed at the footstead. and rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting like children along the graveled walks of the garden, diego’s love a skull in the circular window of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow. how does the underlined figurative language contribute to the meaning of the poem? it describes the reason for frida’s pain and suffering. it indicates that the love frida once felt has died. it shows that frida continues to think of politics. it suggests that frida prefers to be around nature.