ENGL 228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Romantic Poetry, Dactylic Hexameter, Environmental Determinism
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In crawford"s paradime, sorrow is not futility or defeat, but the poem"s dark matrix. For crawford, to suffer is to lose touch with prosperity and to experience creation of the own soul. Solution of the poem is not that property goes away, but that the protagonists suffer. If property is an act of exclusion, then the ultimate act of inclusion - act of forgiveness - at the end. Crawford"s romance presents this ideal altruism as this national solution. Vision of canada with lakes and prairies and mountains at end. Crawford wants to establish this as a national basis, canada rising from this moral foundation in order to be something different from imperial europe. It positions her in a wider movement known as. In 1867, british parliament passed british na pact. Four colonies were united, the provinces of canada - Ottawa is responsible for, then what each of the provinces are responsible for.