Question

Summary of the poem like an old proud king in a parable by ajm smith

Answer 1

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Smith (1979), calls “Like an Old Proud King in a Parable” Smith's “signature poem” and suggests it both defines the situation of Canadian poets in the 1920s and exemplifies Smith's quest “to thin Canadian nature poetry down to a new purity and toughness, avoiding descriptive excess” (31).

Answer 2

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The magazine published early poems by Smith, Scott, Kennedy, Klein, and Robert Finch (1900-1995).2 Created as a monthly journal of “Literature and Opinion,” The Canadian Mercury’s purpose, according to its opening editorial, was to replace “the state of amiable mediocrity and insipidity” in which Canadian literature “languishe[d]” with a poetic spirit the McGill poets understood as having already emerged in Britain and the United States.