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Notes and Commentaries

Volume 01, Number 2 (1976)

"The Poetry of Earth": A Note on Roberts's Sonnets

  • Lorraine McMullen
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1976-06-06

Abstract

Charles G. D. Roberts's sonnet sequence in Songs of the Common Day are the poems through which he most successfully explores his central concerns: mutability and his search for endurance and continuity within a world of flux. In this search, he combines concrete imagery descriptive of the New Brunswick landscape and the seasonal cycles with reflection, recollection, and emotional expression.