EN 2220 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: George Copway, Roughing It, Canadian Literature
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Literature written before 1867 (confederation: parr trails backwoods , published in britain for readers emigrating to canada, hardships were more felt by women, epistolary text letters to home why these aren"t actually letters to her home. She says we don"t get to keep our status: beauty of the land - first nation. Nature"s gentlemen : moodie roughing it , first look at canada was very positive but then she turned really negative she thought the people were very barbaric. English that do not exist in the original language. She says its not too hot and not too cold: labor finding a job. There is plenty of work: settlements more integrated than the us, political rights no discrimination, only men can vote. Modernism: experimentation, free verse, imagery over narrative, push away from the interpretation of the poem and more to appreciate the poem itself. Experience it as its own language: poetry before fiction modernism shows of first in poetry.
