An Earle Birney poem titled for a verb form of this place describes how “owls in the beardusky woods derided” the speaker. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this type of place that alliteratively names a genre of ballads by Banjo Paterson, such as “Waltzing Matilda.”
ANSWER: the bush [accept Australian bush or Canadian bush; accept “Bushed”; reject “outback”]
[10m] This critic theorized a “garrison mentality” centered on a national fear of a hostile landscape in the book The Bush Garden. A book by this literary critic articulates theories of modes, symbols, myths, and genres.
ANSWER: Northrop Frye [or Herman Northrop Frye] (The second book is Anatomy of Criticism.)
[10h] This person says, “anything planted here / would come up blood” in “dream 1: the bush garden,” part of a poetry collection inspired by this person’s journals. This writer described the difficulties of living in the Canadian wilderness in the memoir Roughing It in the Bush.
ANSWER: Susanna Moodie [or Susannah Strickland; accept The Journals of Susanna Moodie] (Margaret Atwood wrote The Journals of Susanna Moodie.)
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