Nationalism and NatureThe Poetry of John Edwin Pratt (E. J. Pratt)
Literature has been used, over time in history, as a medium throughwhich people can express their feelings and thoughts about significantevents that they experience in their lives. Because of this, literature isoften considered as a reflection or 'mirror' through which people canwitness an individual's subjective interpretation of life and his/hersocial experiences. The individual, in this case, is theauthor/writer/poet, where s/he is able to channel his/her reality as s/he Like American and English poetry, Canadian poetry has its own legacyof literary writers who have contributed significantly to the developmentnot only of the country's culture and the arts, but in nation-building aswell. Edwin John Pratt, popularly known as E. J. Pratt, is a Canadianpoet, who had spent his academic career creating works of literature thatcontribute the nation-building efforts of Canada. Growing up inNewfoundland, Pratt had become accustomed to writing poetry depictingNature, particularly the sea (Pitt, 2004). Furthermore, as one of theearly 20th century poets in Canada, Pratt was known for his "narrativepoems depicting the struggles between humanity and nature and building of
" "The Ground Swell," on the other hand, depicts a different theme fromthe two previous poems discussed. nadian nation" (Microsoft Encarta 2002). "Sea-Gulls" provides vivid descriptions of Canadian history, ascompared to the shorter and more comprehensive poem, "Erosion. "Language" constitutes the country's society and culture, and byillustrating it as "tarnished" and varied ("silver, crystal, ivory"), Pratttalks about the colonization of Canada by the French and British forces foras early as the 16th-17th centuries. The lines, "The language had no simile/Silver, crystal, ivory/ Were tarnished. Furthermore, the process of nation-building and development of the countryis synonymously associated by the first stanza of the poem: "It took thesea a thousand years,/ A thousand years to trace/ The granite features ofthis cliff. The frieze must go unchallenged,"demonstrates the lack of identity of the country in its early history.
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