ENG252Y1 Lecture : Anthology notes
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Duncan scoot known for implementing the indian act. Sonnet"s from 1928, the first two, the last 20 years later. Certain sympathy and structure, racial past, tribal and violent, women represented as subdued, passive in the contemporary. Suffering silently full throated, lips, whoops from the reservation but no speech from her. Doomed indian processes of vanishing is going to happen through interracial breeding. Jesus as a savior, symbol of redemption but in the poem it is flipped to bring doomed. Irony that the baby is also completely pagan not christian. Comparing the mother stained by past relationship, to mary who had an immaculate conception. Simply in the fact that the baby is paler than his mother active by being. Father of child: interracial relations, this is what is spelling the doom of the aboriginal people. Intent is to suggest the relationship but that the consequence of it is isolation.
