Vancouver Lights Summary
Earle Birney

Everything you need to understand or teach Vancouver Lights by Earle Birney.

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Vancouver Lights Summary

"Vancouver Lights" appears in Birney's first collection of poems, David and Other Poems, most of which Birney wrote shortly after World War II began in 1939. The collection launched Birney's career as a poet and the book received the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1942, the most prestigious award given for poetry in Canada. Birney read the poem on a CBC radio program on Canadian poetry in early February 1943. Consisting of five stanzas which...

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