Canadian poem - nature poetry
Vancouver is not like the rest of Canada - winter
mild weather, no wind storms, no snow storms
-5C
harsh winters - Montreal -35C
six months of winter
Nunavut -
Whitehorse , Yellowknife - land of the midnight sun
-25C my hometown
frostbite -
The Northern Lights - Aurora (lights) Borealis (north)
northern Canada
Canadian painters 1920s and 1930s "The Group of Seven"
nature painting, wild nature, cold, harsh, rugged, beautiful
tree boughs - branches of evergreen trees, pine, spruce, fir, cedar, Xmas trees
Vitamin C - scurvy
tree sap
"trees in ice"
superchilled rain - freezes and covers everything in a layer of ice
"Silver Thaw" - Nova Scotia term?
clear, cold days, clear sound
Quebec ice storms 1998
modern poem- 20th Century
- not traditional poetry
- stanzas not regular
- different line lengths
- no rhyme
- no capital letters
Free Verse
black ice - thin ice on the road, can't see it
burning bush - Biblical (Bible) reference
personification - language for humans , used for things
"this glittering pain"
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