Earle Birney

Birney's depiction of Canada as an adolescent struggling to find an identity is a compelling one. The metaphorical employment of "deadset in adolescence" is effective because it depicts where...

In Section VII, the narrator (Bob) describes the seracs and chasms poetically, expressing the beauty and grandeur of nature. The chasms are a "gurgling world of crystal and cold blue," sparkling...

Bobbie lies when he gets back to camp because he doesn't want to admit that he killed David. Although David, paralyzed from falling fifty feet over a ledge, asked Bobbie to put him out of his...

The poem "Winter Saturday" by Canadian poet Earle Birney is an extended metaphor that compares people coming out of their houses in the winter after a snowstorm to moths being fooled into emerging...

The theme of “David” by Earle Birney is whether or not euthanasia is consistent with our long-standing notions of human autonomy. The eponymous character has had a serious rock-climbing accident...

Earle Birney's "Anglosaxon Street" refers first to the "Anglo-Saxon," the merging of the Anglos and the Saxons. Historically, they are: ...Germanic settlers who came to Britain during the 5th and...

Let's take a look at your question regarding the conflicts revealed in Earl Birney's poem "David." Birney's poem begins with the description of hard labor and its environment that summer cut[ting]...

The theme of the poem "Winter Saturday" by Earle Birney is that people overlook the wonders that are right in front of them. In this poem, people in a farmhouse emerge after a winter storm. They...

Earle Birney's "Vancouver Lights" employs many metaphors throughout. The theme of the poem itself is a metaphor that compares light and life. However, there are many specific metaphors in the poem...

Poetry speaks to each individual in a different way. My perceptions are as follows: The rainbow in the poem may symbolize the speaker's dreams which have come crashing around him in the throes of...

In this poem, Birney seems to have a very negative view of his country. He sees it as a country that is not really all that significant. It is overshadowed by its parents (England) and especially...

I will look at two lines from this poem. In both of these lines, Birney is arguing that Canada is not really a very "cultured" country. The first of these is Line 9, where Birney says that Canada...