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Summary Meeting the British - Paul Muldoo
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‘Meeting the British’ (P. Muldoon)‘ Meeting the British’ (P. Muldoon)
1. We met the British in the dead of winter.
2. The sky was lavender
The irony in the title of the poem: 3. and the snow lavender-blue.
4. I could hear, far below,
A meeting is associated with business
between two or more equals at an
5. the sound of two streams coming together
agreed time and place. The meeting
6. (both were frozen over)
described in the poem takes place by
chance and between parties who see 7. and, no less strange,
themselves as equals. / This is a 8. myself calling out in French
meeting between two cultures that
will change the course of their 9. across that forest-
histories. SACAI JUN 2021 10. clearing. Neither General Jeffrey Amherst
11. nor Colonel Henry Bouquet
12. could stomach our willow-tobacco.
13. As for the unusual
The poem deals with a meeting 14. scent when the Colonel shook out his hand
between the indigenous people of
America and the colonists SACAI JUN 2021 15. kerchief: C’est la lavande,
16. une fleur mauve comme le ciel.
17. They gave us six fishhooks
18. and two blankets embroidered with smallpox.
The reason why the structure of the
poem is regarded as ironic:
The poem’s orderly structure makes it
The poem is a lyric and the atmosphere created is serious. SACAI JUN
look very controlled. This structure is
2022
ironic, given that one of the poem’s
strongest themes is the instability of
language and the disorder it can
create. SACAI JUN 2021
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