EN 2220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Northrop Frye, Barometer Rising
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It comes at a time when canada is entering the second world war. He has fallen out of flavour in the last couple of decades. He says that we have this plot but he gets out of it and explains how to read it: uses the first world war to inspire and correct. The function that the books tells us about. The use of the first war as the nationalism of canada and. We can see how flanders field functions as a. Canadian text, it is very much a part of nationalism but the poem itself is not nationalism but it can be read that way. The barometer rising is tries to go back to the first world war and shed off the english identity and act on our own. He uses the history to start a literature tradition in canada. He is situating himself within this larger arch of canadian literature.
