The similie suggests that this is the perfect home for him. When Acorn says “nowhere is there a spot not measured by hands,” he means that the island is tiny and every single area of the island has been touched by a villager. When he says beaches that roar he is talking about the roaring pride that the citizens have for their island and province. They have a lot of pride and that is great for the community.

When you look in you see nothing but a black picture. But when you look out you see a beautiful island filled with wonderful scenery and tremendous pride and patriotism. In the fanged jaws of the gulf there is a red tongue. When he says this he means that the jagged hills are the jaws and the red soil of Prince Edward Island is the red tongue.

The Island

Bowering finds the smoke-stack in the prairie sky to be absurd. This permits moss-rooft cabins, tribe of prairie dog eaters. He believes that the cities are destroying the prairies. You look into the sky line and you can see the smoke-stacks from the city. Instead of using Mud in the poem Mud Time I would use rain. You could write a similar poem but use rain instead of mud. Almost every sentence used in the poem could be switched to rain and it would still make sense. I would suggest my feelings by bringing it to the start of summer. Summer is my favorite season so I think that would be a good way to end the poem.

Prairie and Mud Time

For Kroetsch the Stone Hammer represents his life. It goes through different obstacales such as the stone chipped and hammered until it is shaped like the stone hammer, the maul. The stone hammer is the best thing. You strive to try and be the best you can be, and become the stone hammer. Pride and Stone Hammer are very similar poems. They both have very similar ideas and theories to get the point across.

Stone Hammer

If the Natives had petitioned for the Indian graveyard to not be destroyed I think they would have been granted their wish, and the highway would have been built around the graveyard. Graveyards are very centimental and to destroy a graveyard just to put a highway in place is not the right thing to do. I’m sure it wouldn’t have taken much more time and effort to go around the Indian graveyard so they could be kept of some of their centimental beliefs and memories. I don’t think that the graveyard would have been purposely destroyed because that is one of the worst things to do. You go to a graveyard to pray or talk to the loved ones you lost and it wouldn’t be right if that got destroyed to put a highway in place.

The highway is a part of white culture, and the graveyard is a part of Indian culture. The highway is a way of people getting place to place. The graveyard is where the Indian’s can go to pray to their loved ones that they lost. I believe that the graveyard is way more important for the Indian culture, than the highway for white culture. The graveyard was already their, so the white people should have to bulid the highway around the graveyard, instead of destroying it. That is very disrespectful to the natives that the graveyard was destroyed. That is a huge part of their culture that is now gone forever.

Caribou and Elephants

In the first section they talk about images and civilization. Men are tied like animals to a stick, fighting to death. The men have sabre blades riding animals down the level plains. Searching for them until 4000 warriors died of smallpox. The images turns to an uncivilized, undeveloped country, where everything is isolated. Ghosts are haunting everywhere you go. Different types of tribes start being introduced into the poem. Haida and Tsimshyan tribes. There is a lack of thunderstorms in Haida’s district. Their area started on fire, and they made shelter from the from. These tribes believe that the sun and the eagles are authority. These legends may still be around today but no one listens or practices the stories. Now John Newlove is asking what tales they worship.The plains are bare, so crops cannot be made. Peigan’s drove snakes out of the plains and the old Cree Saukamappee (chief) is telling his old stories. Indians are not composed of romantic stories, but have interesting stories. We are all made of the same environment as natives.

Throughout the poem The Pride, John Newlove’s attitude toward the natives changes. At the start of the poem the natives are described as being somewhat crazy. They are described being tethered with leather dog-thongs to a stake, fighting until death. They are thought of as warriors, fighting with sabre blades. More towards the end of the poem they talk about the natives being more romantic and telling stories.

The title The Pride is very significant. Although the white people are trying to take over the natives have all the pride. They don’t want the white people taking their territory over so they fight for it. They had alot of integrity to do such a thing, and fight for their territory.

The Pride

The young are leaving quickly because they know they have no future with their parents. If they stay with their parents they won’t be going anywhere. They know that they have to leave in order to do better in life. Without having to go day by day wondering if you will have something to eat by the end of the day. The fathers know that the children must leave to have a better future. At home with their parents their isn’t much of a future for them. Their mothers do not want to tell them this because they want their kids to stay with them instead of leaving. Although it would be better for the kids, their mother still would not want them to leave, but won’t say anything about it.

They would want to go back there because they miss their families. The kids would go back to the town because they miss there families and they might feel bad because they just left there family to work hard and decided not to help them out. The children might return to see how life used to be, to realize how much better there life has became. There are many reason for heading back. I think a lot of the reason is that there is sentimental value to them for where they grew up where the spent 18 or more years of there lives.

The Country North of Belleville

The poems Tantramar Revisited and The Pea Fields have a great deal of mood and atmosphere. The figures of speech, sensory appeal, and connotations combine to create the mood and atmosphere of the poems. In the Tantramar Revisited several figures of speech are used right off the bat. Charles G.D. Roberts says things like there are the low blue hills; villages gleam at their feet and old-time sweetness, the winds freighted with honey and salt. In The Pea-Fields they use metaphors such as and pale green tangles like a seamaid’s hair, and A shimmer like these fluttering slopes of peas. Although these figures of speech and metaphors make the poem have mood and atmosphere the poems weren’t very good. It was hard to understand them, which took away from the learning of the poem. It was also really hard to get into the poem because it had a slow-moving rhythm.

Mood and Atmosphere

The poem Trans Canada has many interesting metaphors. “The sure wings are the everlasting arms of science.” F.R Scott is implying that the wings of the plane are reliable, but not always heading in the right direction, just like in science. You might think something is correct but you could be proven completely wrong. “Clouds, now, are the solid substance.” F.R. Scott is suggesting that clouds like the nation, meen together but may not be. “A solar peace, and a six-way choice.” We have six directions to go. North, South, East, West, Up, And Down.

The frontier that we all live and belong in. The frontier where everything starts, where we belong. The plane has altered our lifestyle because it has brought new technology and the people who do these feats like puttign a rocket into space only get credit for it. Since we are all living in this time everybody should get credit for the change in lifestyle. Everybody has their own place in society and everybody should get some credit for advancements in the world and technology.

Scott talks about Mackenzie King blunting us. He is blaming King for us having no shape in society because he never took sides. Scott says that King skillfully avoided what was wrong without saying what was right. He didn’t have much ambition, he would let the parliment make decisions later. Scott’s political views appear to disagree with Kings decisions. Throughout the post Scott makes it clear that King made bad decisions and Scott did not support them at all. Scott’s political views put Mackenzie King’s contributions to shame.

In W.L.M.K. Scott beaks Canadian politics alot. He doesn’t really say anything good about Canadian politics throughout the whole poem. In Trans Canada it isn’t apparent near as much. The extent to which he is critical about Canadian politics is way less in Trans Canada. It doesn’t even really bring Canadian politics into affect at all except when it talks about science, and new careers.

Trans Canada

In the poem The Creek, By A.J.M Smith he has written the poem in such a way that he is analysing it. In the start of the poem it almost seems that A.J.M is trying to describe the poem. He says, “Stones still wet with cold black earth, roots, wisps of roots and wisps of straw, green soaked crushed leaves mudsoiled where hoof has touched them.” In this first paragraph he describes the black cold earth, wisps of roots, and green crushed leaves. In a way he is also analysing it when he talks about the twisted grass that lips the ledge of the stream’s edge. In the second paragraph Smith is definately analysing the creek. He is saying what is happening in the creek, not what is there. He talks about the bits of straw rising, subsiding, floating wide, and coming around again. This evidently shows the analysis of this poem. Smith is analysing what has been added to the poem, and what is going on in the poem.

The Creek

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