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i need help with poem and need to identify each province by giving a line frm poem.ontario and quebec be bunk house & brawnymen, prince edward island be little girl, great fisherman be nova scotia and new brunswick, BC be hunchback. Alberta, saskatchewan & manitoba be "three flat faced.what the poet trying to find in poem? do he discover it? he just tieing all nations together?The ProvincesFirst, the two older ones, the bunkhouse brawnymen,biceps and chest, lumbering over their legend:scooping a river up in the palm of the hand,a dangling fish, alive; kicking open a mine;bashing a forest bald; spitting a country to crop;for exercise before their boar breakfast,building a city; racing, to keep in shape,against the white-sweatered wind; and alwaysbragging comparisons, and reminiscingabout their fathers’ even more mythic prowess,arguing always, like puffing champions risingfrom wrestling on the green.Then, the three flat-faced blonde-haired husky ones.And the little girl, so beautiful she was named—to avert the evil of the evil eye—after a prince, not princess. In crossed arms cradling her,her brothers, tanned and long-limbed.(Great fishermen, hauling out of Atlantic their catch and their coaland netting with appleblossom the shoals of their sky.)And, last, as if of another birth,the hunchback with the poet’s face; and eyesblue as the glass he looks upon; and fruithis fragrant knuckles and joints; of iron morrow;—affecting always a green habit, touched with white.Nine of them; not countingthe adopted boy of the golden complex, northe proud collateral albino,—nine,a sorcery of numbers, a game’s stances.But the heart seeks one, the heart, and also the mindseeks single the thing that makes them one, if one. Yet where shall one find it? In their history -the cairn of cannonball on the public square?Their talk, their jelous double-talk? Or inthe whim and weather of a geographycuring in drifts about the forty-ninth?Or find it in the repute of character:romantic as mounties? Or discover itin beliefs that say:this is a country of Christmas trees? Or hear it singfrom the house of towers, from whose towers ringbells, and the carillon of laws?Where shall one find it? Whatto name it , that is sought?The ladder the nine brothers hold by rungs?The birds that shine on each other? The white waterthat foams from the ivy entering their eaves?Or find it, find it, find it commonplacebut effective, valid, real, the unityin the family feature, the not unsimilar face?


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I believe that the poet finds a unity in the provinces. Although they are different, they all share the same history and make up one country.

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