ENGL 2802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Campbell Scott, Rhyme Scheme, Confederation Poets
27 Nov 2016
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Enforced and was involved with residential schools: wished to get rid of the indian problem . Sestet: focuses on the child at her breast, future. Iambic pentameter: unstressed stressed, start with a troche in line 11. Blue: predominant colour of madonna"s robes, the predominate colour in the poem is red. Blazon/blason: description of the features of the women, usually of a loved one and it depicts the eyes, the lips, the hair, etc. Full throated : throat is bare, contrasts with the madonna. Alliteration: this woman of a weird and waning race - idea of the indigenous people going extinct is popular. Inheritance: between the father to son - alliteration in line 8 and the word woes with. Goes against your idea of children: primal warrior goes back to warfare and also the savageness of the indigenous, children are usually the promise of our future but here it is the promise of their doom.
