One thing that the Canadian poets in A Cappella have in common is that they write about family, religion, or nature. In a couple of Sarah Klassen's poems, she talks about her mother while Patrick Friesen writes about his father.
In some of the poems, instead of writing it in the first-person, these poems are written in the second or the third-person. I think that with the different uses of the person, you might learn or catch something new than if it had been written in the first-person.
In a couple of the poems (one written by Audrey Poetker-Thiessen and another by Leonard Neufeldt), italics are used on a few of the words. For some of the poems (by Audrey Poetket-Thiessen and Di Brandt), there were no titles on these poems.
I also really enjoyed the way some of the Canadian poets in A Capella switched up what person their poems were written in. It's an interesting technique that we seem to be seeing/thinking a lot of this year. (In memoir as well!)
ReplyDeleteI too am amazed at the consistency of topics between Canadian poets. Religion, family, nature, and history seem to be just about the only topics to choose from. I wonder how much of this comes from societal expectations, lack of originality, or the rule of writing what you know. No doubt, they do it well. However, it would be interesting to see if the subjects matters will change at all in the next generations.
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