The Forces of Nature in the Poetry of Charles G. D. Roberts and E. J. Pratt

e resemblance of the Canadian poets with the two above-mentioned English Romantic poets, we can already perceive the difference in their representation of nature. Tantramar Revisited, as the title indicates, the poet returns to a river flowing by Sackville and called Tantramar. The poem is thus, in the first place, a description of a natural landscape revisited by the speaker. However, along with the long descriptive images, there are many interpolations and musings suggesting thus a mental and not only natural landscape. There are thus more descriptive levels than one. On the one hand thus, the poet observes and depicts, from a vantage point, the hills, the "scattering houses", the endless marshes, the fishing boats and the now dry and unused net reels. The description of the present landscape however merges at the same time with memorial description. The poet remembers the same landscape as he had seen it in the past, contrasting the present stillness with the stir caused by fishing, in another season. Moreover, at certain points, the poet also blends in his imaginings of how the same landscape will look at a different time of day or a different season. Thus, the strong bond between the natural and the mental is here
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