This passage in the essay seems randomly placed... and I don't like that Momaday doesn't explain more about where it came from, or how it relates to previous or later statements.
Most is your name the name of this dark stone.
Deranged in death, the mind to be inheres
Forever in the nominal unknown,
Who listens here and now to hear your name.
The early sun, red as a hunter's moon,
Runs in the plain. The mountain burns and shines;
And silence is the long approach of noon
Upon the shadow that your name defines -
And death this cold, black density of stone.
Is this passage talking about the ruin of the old school that his grandmother once went to? Or is it a discussion about a burial site, a grave?
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