How does the idea of a garden or gardening structure the long poem Seed Catalogue by Robert Kroetsch? What characteristics of the long poem are evident in Robert Kroetsch’s Seed Catalogue? In what ways does Seed Catalogue evince a discomfort with settler land ownership? How do such feelings unsettle settlement of the land? In what ways does Seed Catalogue celebrate settler history and achievement? For a poem, even a long poem, Seed Catalogue contains a lot of anecdotes and stories? What role do they play in the poem? Analyze the constructions of space and place in Robert Kroetsch’s Seed Catalogue. How do you grow a prairie farm, a town? There are a significant number of mentions of sexual desire and sex in Seed Catalogue. In what ways do such passages relate to the poem as a whole? Compare Robert Kroetsch’s invocations to the muse to two other such invocations at the beginning of long poems – e.g., Homer’s The Odyssey or The Iliad or the opening of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. (Note: you may find several different translations of Homer. Choose the one or ones that work best for your analysis, and please provide me as an attachment to the back of your paper a copy of the texts with which you are comparing.) Was the gopher really the model for the prairie town? What role, if any, do animals (gophers, badgers, are there others?) play in the long poem Seed Catalogue? How do you grow a poet when our home is on native land, and we have not bothered to learn the indigenous languages, stories, songs and traditions of this place? In what ways is Seed Catalogue a kind of poem of the failures attendant upon European and subsequent waves of settlement?
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