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thry are growing restle ss. Powerful searchlights sweep across the drirting ice to the .-\ig:hanista n side, probing fo r us. A. car mo\•es slowly back and forth along the fa r bank. Ou r o•.rn vehicle groans and whines..in a sandbank: despite its four-wheel dn\•e, '. Ve cannot br~ak it free. The noise t1pseG ~-\b d~.d '.\' aki!. He draws and loads his _ e•;o l\•er. r1e son of a [.irg;-iiz chieftain, 0•1r stocky guide \\" Ot.dd be more comfort1bie or: !.he b. 2c~ .. : 1)f ~ h1) :-.e. m (J!"e ~t hr;rr:e :)~ ~~.e '.'":ir;~ treeicss piD.ieau of the Little Pan1ir 1 the r:.1~ge near th e Chinese border far to the east. h.e is nen •ous not only abo ut the Russians across the river. Who can say that bandits no longer prc:, wt th is bleak., impo\•erished corner of :Vghanistan) It is better, he fee ls. th at we do not call attentio n to ourseh•es; he will set out on foot to see k help .. .\bd ul \Yak il takes our flashlight and vanishes into the night. :\'ow we 1re alone with our ssranded ca r , Roland a r.d I, on watch in the darkness somewcere on the. .\fghan bank oi the Pan ja Ri\ •er-::ie Ox us Ri\•er of the ancient ,.vorld. The
The essay follows a discontinuous, perforated path through 150 years of poetry in English written in or about the North American Arctic.
Poetry about the Arctic and in particular the prospects of finding a northwest passage through the archipelago of arctic North America is a line of aft that has developed with many perforations from the type of Thomas James's expedition under Charles I in the early 1630s up to the end of the twentieth century and the onset of environmental apocalypse. This paper brings under discussion for the first time the poetry written by explorers and by Canadian poets in order to study responses to remote landscapes and events in them.
snowSongs, article by vivienne spiteri
snowSongs the institute of canadian music newsletter, january 2008: vol 6 number 1 the story begins many moons past in a faraway land, when one who sailed from « the silver » 1 to the white land, told tales of an ancient people of elemental existence. ramon pelinski, ethnomusicologist and musician, was speaking of the inuit 2 of northern canada whose essential element, snow, goes by many names. 3 at once life-line and death-trap, the inuit's ability to identify snows through naming could be for them, a matter of life and death.
A Complete Study Guide to the Poem Dust of Snow
This is a complete study guide that provides a comprehensive literary and thematic analysis of the popular poem - "Dust of Snow" by the American poet - Robert Frost. The poem is part of many schools and college curricula and therefore for the benefit of students, I have included a general introduction to the poem and the poet, a stanza by stanza explanation, and a structural analysis of the poem. I have also covered the poetic devices used with examples and the significance of the powerful symbolism employed by Frost. In a nutshell, I have endeavored to give you a complete and comprehensive analysis of this beautiful and succinct poem in my best literary capacities. I hope you get something of worth from it. Happy reading!