Canadian Poetry

Canadian Studies – Nov 21

Modernist Poets

 Concludes that sense of crisis has to change the foundations of art – art

cannot simply be a kind of retreat from crisis

 Deliberately give us poems that are hard to read – not to waiver from the

crisis

 Trying to embody crisis in their art that they’re perceiving in the world

around them.

 Poem: economic problems, cultures of death,

 Language is one of the victims – worried about what art might be after the

Ernie Buscht(?) – look at it – of what Canada can do to you, if you try to

isolate yourself/cut yourself off/live in the wilderness in the wrong way