Susanna Moodie- Roughing It In The Bush
             Susanna Moodie's poem is a simple yet revealing character piece because it deals with many important themes such as: love and pain. She has one ambition in life: to escape her "native land". At the beginning of the poem she is afraid of change: Oh! can you can leave your native land
             An exile's bride to be; Your mother's home, and cheerful hearth, To tempt the main with me; Across the wide and stormy sea To trace our foaming track, And know the wave that bears us on Will ne'er convey us back The fact that she wanted to spread peace and joy around the world but was "submerged" in her obsession with Canada, suggests she was waiting to be rescued. Moodie presents "Roughing It In The Bush" as journal exploring the implicit morals of human nature and how we're ignorant of the freedom given to us. She gives us a sense of epiphany because this gives the readers a fascinating journey through the emptiness of her soul.
             In the article , Thomas Moore expresses gender by associating it with dark images of "Canadian woods" while struggling to be free. However, irony is only used to "justify" her tragic experience on the boat: "Amid the shades of forests dark, Our loved isle will appear an Eden, whose delicious bloom will make the wild more drear" (33). A Canadian Song portrays her vanities of the unredeemed, who dreams of escaping this new land because Moodie thinks she'll get hurt and this country represents "a disease". The readers can easily imagine if Susanna was freed from her prison, she wouldn't feel depressed and struggle to adapt towards this new "land". To analyze this poem, we must imagine we're alone in a world of hate where difference is identified as unacceptable. Susanna has no passion or desire with her life; instead it's replaced with the virtue of pain.
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