"landscape:1" by bpNichol

landscape: I – 1986 – bpNichol

alongthehorizongrewanunbrokenlineoftrees

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Analysis:

The form of the poem and content works hand in hand to help understand the the poem.
 The single line of the poem can be viewed by readers as an example of symbolism and irony. The poem quotes "alongthehorizongrewanunbrokenlineoftrees," readers can easily view the line of words as being unbroken, with no spaces to separate them. Like the unbroken line of trees mentioned in the poem, so are the words of the poem. The words themselves, could symbolize the trees, because both are unbroken lines.
   Along with an example of symbolism there also appears to be a sample of irony. Both the line of trees and the line of words in the poem remain unbroken; the line of trees, with no spaces between them, become a border and separate the land from the horizon. The unbroken line, breaks the boundary between the land and the horizon.