Commentary on Scott

There is no way for us to read this portion of the course without a sense of the contemporary becharms that people want us would like bring to the subject. Values of c at oncern, sensibility to language, sensitivity to our role in a very difficult history. This view isnt shared by many in society. champion need only look as far as the comments earlier this week made by federal pastor of Aboriginal Affairs John Duncan who suggested that better accounting and rophy management were needed to solve community problems in Attawapiskat. So as we all read, comment and later discuss these passages I think we need to recognize that we are probably expressing a minority opinion.
In reading Powassans Drum what stricken me was the repeated reference to pee. Powassan being fierce with thirst on term 12 then the shallow water fill up grave on lines 19 & 20. Line 41 has water from the spring of morning but by line 55 it is Stealthy as death the water. Lines 73 and 88 refer to the water and sweet water of twilight beforehand it is once again referred to more ominously in between lines 103 and 110 where a severed head is trailed through the dead water and the face looks through the water with unquenched eye sunburn in the water before the murdered shadow sinks in the water on line 123.




So what are we to require of these multiple water references along with supporting images of canoes and shore lines? Is this Scott conjure up the pure waters of Powassans youth, the spring of morning that has in a flash carried him to his death where the purity is gone and he is straight off drowning with eyes wide open peering back at us? The water is now dead and all that is left of Powassan is his body once haughty in manful power but now headless and impotent in power. A shadow of himself sinking below the waterline. Without water there is no life, water as well provides us with a reflection and it is flowing as it takes us from one place to another.
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