e of natural 'space'. Such images of freedom and beauty contrast starkly with the confinement of restrictions of her domestic world. This idea is then further extended as she travels deeper still into the inner recesses of the mind itself, perhaps mankind's most unexplored region.
             Superficially, the poem describes the Canadian landscape, a world that is harsh, inhospitable and bleak. The first lines talk of a time when it was first 'discovered' and opened up as fresh terrain to be explored and exploited. Atwood paints a world of cliffs, hills, trees and swamps, a rugged environment with 'endless' horizons that lie still largely uncharted and unexplored. It is an enigmatic world, both majestic and dangerous that when viewed from a distance lacks specific details. This is not discerned until the traveller can approach it more closely and look carefully. Such examination shows th
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