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'After the Ebb-Flow' : A.J.M. Smith's Nature Poetry
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'After the Ebb-Flow' : A.J.M. Smith's Nature Poetry
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| Abstract |
The author notes that few Canadian poets write of nature as objectively as Montrealer A.J.M. Smith (1902-1980) did in the ten poems which make up section two of his book Poems, New and Collected. The ten poems singled out by the author are "To Hold in a Poem," "Sea Cliff," "The Creek," "Swift Current," "Walking in a Field, Looking Down and Seeing a White Violet," "Wild Raspberry," "Birches at Drummond Point," "Tree," "The Lonely Land," and "The Convolvulus." The author maintains that Smith carefully avoided imposing or implanting human shapes and characteristics on nature. He embraced the Imagist practice of "seeing the thing in itself," which he referred to as "nakedness of vision," but he subjected what he saw to analysis. The author argues that where Smith differed from the Imagists, he resembled British poet Thomas Traherne (1636 or 1637-1674), whose notion of "pure seeing" includes analysis and leads to felicity.
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Studies in Canadian Literature / Études En littérature Canadienne
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Vol. 14
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no. 1
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54-72
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1989
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en
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Compton, Anne. “’After the Ebb-Flow’ : A.J.M. Smith’s Nature Poetry.” Studies in Canadian Literature / Études En littérature Canadienne Vol. 14, no. 1 (1989): 54–72. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl/article/view/8094/9151.
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