Early Bernie (1904~), a poet, became famous for his narrative poem The Poems of David (1942). After 1950s, he constantly reformed his old works in form, canceled punctuation marks and arranged poems according to numbers. Owen Leiden is also one of the poets who reformed the poetic form under the influence of the Montenegro School. His poems satirize the social bad habits and academic habits in the literary world. Patricia Page belongs to the Imagist poet. Her poems describe the life and feelings of ordinary people in the city.
Some poets still maintain realistic creative methods, such as Raymond soste's poetry anthology Color of the Times (192 1~), which reflects the aspirations of the lower classes in Toronto.
After the war, some writers discussed the urgent problems faced by Canadian society with a realistic attitude, such as racial contradictions, relations with the United States, and women's demands. Hugh Maclennan is one of the most influential novelists. He wrote six novels about social problems. Loneliness in Two Places (1945) and The Sphinx Comes Back to Earth (1967) are works about the national contradictions between Britain and France in Canada.
Other works with the theme of minority life include Mordecai Richler's The Apprentice of Dodd kravitz (193 1~), which describes the experiences of Jews in Canadian society. The works of women writers Ethel Wilson, margaret lawrence (1926~) and Alice Munro (1932~) mostly describe petty-bourgeois women's pursuit of love, friendship and ideals.
In the late 1950s, works describing alienation psychology and survival crisis began to appear. The most influential ones are Mountains and Valleys by Ernest Bachle (1952) and The Rise by Margaret Atwood (1972). At the same time, the description of regional and local life is still a popular theme, such as Malicious Expansion (19 13~) and Fragile Masterpiece (1958) written by Robertson Davis with humorous and implicit brushstrokes. Who has seen Mitchell's wind (19 14~)?
With the change of theme, modern creative methods have also been widely used by some writers. Maclennan's novel The Night's Watch Ends (1959), Lawrence's Stone Angel (1964), Atwood's novels often fail to see the time sequence.
After the 1960s, English literature in Canada has developed, and two obvious tendencies can be seen in the works:
One of the themes is broader and not limited to countries. This is because the national consciousness of writers of various nationalities has been enhanced, and most of them take their own myths and historical legends as their writing themes. At the same time, writers living abroad often write with their own country as the background.
Secondly, the development of electronic culture has stimulated writers to pursue formal innovation. Writing novels emphasizes the immediate image and feelings, not the plot, and novels tend to be poetic; Poetry emphasizes the objective effect, and poetry is arranged in a certain format to form a pattern, which has the rhythm of songs and the language of music.