The Legend Summary & Study Guide

Garrett Hongo
This Study Guide consists of approximately 28 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Legend.

The Legend Summary & Study Guide

Garrett Hongo
This Study Guide consists of approximately 28 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Legend.
This section contains 887 words
(approx. 3 pages at 400 words per page)
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Stanza 1

Hongo begins “The Legend” by quickly establishing the setting of the poem: the streets of Chicago during a soft snowfall, in the “twilight of early evening.” The narrator uses detailed images to convey a story, with the language focusing on external events. The first image is that of a man carrying a load of laundry, neatly folded within a crumpled shopping bag; the narrator states that the man enjoys the feel of the warm laundry in his hands. Thus, the narrator is one who can make assumptions about the internal state of the character. The narrator then compares the color of the man's face to a Rembrandt painting, alluding to the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), of the European baroque school of painting. This description reveals not only the color of the man's cheeks but also the character of the narrator: he has knowledge and cultural...

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