ENGL 228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Frederick George Scott, Confederation Poets, Bliss Carman
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Sorrow is not utility, but rather a divine intervene. Suffering is to lose touch with prosperity. Solution: not that the problem of property goes away, but rather that protagonists suffer. Ideal altruism only though a kind of death allows salvation and rebirth. Poem = national solution a vision of canada and establish ideal altruism as an ideal basis to rise from this moral foundation, and become different from imperial europe. Crawford = positions her within a wider movement; confederation poetry. 1867 parliament passed the british north american act uniting 4 colonies (provinces of. Canada: upper canada, northern canada, nova scotia, ) De nes what ottawa is responsible for, and what each provence is responsible for. Creating the hierarchy of who has power over what. De nes what matters will be governed and who will govern them kept under the control of the british parliament of london. Could not pass any laws unless allowed by the british parliament.