EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: In Flanders Fields, Barometer Rising, Big Umbrella
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Recap: following the first world war there were two divergent movements among literary discussions in canada one was the cosmopolitan literature and we are joining this larger international movement of arts, visual arts and music. That was one response and yet at the same time there was the counter-tendency where as people in the us and europe were looking at the failure of their countries as a nation. But in canada the war was considered the birth of a nation: two examples of literary nationalism that use the first world war: in flanders field. It was written on the battlefield of the first world war. Barometer rising he was looking back from the cusp of the first world war from the second world war. We see a clear example intentionally using the first world war experience by bringing it to canadian soil by bringing up the halifax explosion: uses the first world war experience as a metaphor for canada.
