CONFEDERATION POETS

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Mapa conceptual del tema 2 de la asignatura Literatura canadiense en lengua inglesa. Uned.
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CONFEDERATION POETS
  1. - Loyalist background. - Born in the early 1860s - Victorian education: trained in the classics. - Romanticism and transcendentalism. - Nationalism; interest in landscape. Pastoral landscape of Acadia
    1. CHARLES G.D. ROBERTS
      1. - Founding father. - Outspoken Canadian nationalist (Canada First Movement). Patriotic. - Marked by contradictions. - Nature in New Brunswick. - Pre-Raphaelite tradition, pictorial quality. - Darwinian vision: survival as a matter of luck and fitness. - He found change at the heart of things.
        1. “TANTRAMAR REVISITED” (1886)
          1. - Mythologizing the Maritime environment (Tantramar Marshes). - Loco-descriptive unrhymed poem, variant of hexameter. - Repetitions and length→distance (spatial/temporal). - Meditating on past and present (the speaker returns to his homeland). Lyric intensity. - World dominated by “chance and change”. - Colloquial and detailed descriptive diction. Visual images
          2. “THE SKATER” (1901):
            1. - Visual imagery of a frozen river (glittering steel, long white dream…) - The speaker turns away from a beautiful scene (threatening nature) - Pentameter, 4 stresses, alliteration, rhyme. Classical form. - “In the deep of my heart I heard my fear”.
          3. ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN
            1. - Ideal beauty in the Canadian landscape. - Naturalis poet, vivid simple images and diction (sounds, motion and colours of the wilderness). - Experimental rhythms. Pictorial/musical effects. - Social concerns, horrors if industrial city. - Celebration of nature touched by fear. - He saw change only in the superficialities of appearance (unchanging reality beneath the surface)
              1. “HEAT” (1888) - The speaker contemplates a natural scene, reflects upon it and, renewed, returns to the city. “My thoughts grow keen and clear”. - Dreamy hot atmosphere of a rural landscape. - Tetrameter, rhythm and rhyme. Abab. Allusion (Keats). - Oppositions: movement/stillness, coolness/heat, sound/silence, dark/light.
                1. “THE CITY OF THE END OF THINGS” (1895) - Again Iambic tetrameter, rhythm abab. - Hallucinatory focus on detail. Dream-like poem. - Disturbing urban images (fiery engine, dazed crowds) grow apocalyptic. - Individual endangered by a city (mechanical and industrialized) is a version of the Pandemonium. Dehumanized. - Anti-Utopian, satirical revelation of the results of the application of materialistic rationalism to the search for social perfection.
                  1. “WINTER EVENING” (1899) - Sonnet, iambic pentameter, abba acca def dfe. - Visual imagery, colour gold (wash of gold). Atmospheric poem. - Describes a sunset and the feeling of fear aroused by darkness. - Impressionist landscape
                  2. DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT
                    1. - Response to the Canadian landscape and its people (life and customs of Aboriginal peoples, lumbermen and French Canadian). - First Nation subjects. - Depiction of conflicts, natural struggle from which beauty and peace arise. - Sense of man in confrontation with a violent universe. - Death as a part of life: heroism in death. - Isolation of the individual. - He was a pianist, imprinted musical effects to his poetry.
                      1. “AT THE CEDARS” (1893) - Lumberman Isaac Dufour, his daughter also dies. Christ-like death. - Dramatic monologue. End rhyme, repetition. - Combines long and short lines to create rhythm
                        1. “THE ONONDAGA MADONNA” (1898) - Petrarchan Sonnet. - An Iroquois woman holds her baby warrior, race doomed. - Diction: related to past, war and wildness, but sense of tragic fate.
                          1. “THE FORSAKEN” (1905) - Chippewa woman, 2 long stanzas: 1: young woman, short lines convey the steady pulse of her heart. 2: long lones, old woman’s slowing heart. - She fishes using her own flesh as bait to feed her baby. Later, she accepts her destiny and dies covered by the snow in extraordinary conditions of peace. Serenity (“Then she had rest”). Meets the “silence deeper than silence”. - Repetition (Valiant, unshaken). Free verse, narrative poem. - Christian imagery, she dies like a martyr.
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