In the first two stanzas, Paterson describes his son, Jamie, drawing the universe. The opening line is a striking beginning, as it suggests that Jamie has taken on a mammoth task, but also that in ...

However, we are reminded of Lochhead’s very Scottish sense of pragmatism in the next stanza, which opens with the line, At the Barrows everything has its price. The stanza continues by giving ...

Leepson: You have to read the first three lines of this stanza together. I think Key’s talking about the Americans who went to the British side, who were predominantly enslaved people.