Search for Self: An Analysis of Modern Canadian Poetry

Abstract

Canada’s identity has always been a question either with multiple answers or without any. Canada is known for its mosaic existence that is Canada as a multi-cultural landscape and symbolizes a national ideology of inclusion and diversity. That is to say, Canada as a melting pot is made of English, French, Native, Irish, Scottish, Germans, and Ukrainian, etc. ethno-cultural communities. For the first time Canada was represented in the writings of visitors, explorers, travelers, and British officers and their wives, which reflected their impressions on Canada, thus it failed to address the true self of Canada.