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\n\"A.M.Klein's post-war poetry has comeout of his own Canadian time and place.The Rocking Chair and Other Poems(1948Governor-General's Award)contains hisbest work.A clear-eyed and patientobserver,Klein has caught the look and feelof Quebec,the province and the state ofmind in such poems as 'The Snowshoers'and 'The Notary.'...These are exquisitelywrought structures in which rhythm,toneand image both embody and interpret abroad vision of a way of life.The rockingchair symbolizes this ancient way of life:static,secure,traditional,grounded inauthority.But Klein also perceives that thisagricultural,home-centred,river-orientedfolk has been industrialized,urbanized.Therocking chair has yielded to the filling-station,the spinning-wheel to the powermill.\"Literary History of Canada  \nBoth nostalgic and realistic,these poemscapture the mood of a province in transition.The variety is immense.Along with apointed satire of the Montrealer who cannotforget he attended the Sorbonne is a gently  \n819.154  \nKlein  \na39098001262483b  \n(2)  \nKlein,Abraham Moses  \nThe rocking chair,and otherpoems.  \nhttps://archive.org/details/rockingchair0000unse  \n#  Rding Chain\n\nKITCHENER PLIRI IC LIRR△RV  \n# The RockingChai\n\n## and other PoemsA·M·KLEIN\n\nTHE RYERSON PRESS·TORONTO  \nCoPYRIGHT,CANADA,1948,BYTHE RYERSON PRESS,TORONTO  \nAll rights reseryed.No part of this book may be repro-duced in any form(except by reviewers for the publicpress),without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nPublished July,1948Third Printing,1966  \n## ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\n\nThanks are due to the editors of the followingperiodicals for permission to reprint poems thatappeared in their pages:Poetry:A Magazineof Verse;The Nation;Accent;The CanadianForum;Preview;First Statement;CanadianPoetry;Queen's Quarterly;Northern Review;Contemporary Verse and Here and Now.  \n树  \nFOR MY WIFE  \n100","cbCaiic7qlh4SKuW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiic7qlh4SKuW","pdf",2047971,72,"English","# The Rocking Chair and Other Poems\n## Introduction and Context\n## Publication and Acknowledgments\n## Themes and Symbolism","[{\"question\":\"What is the significance of the rocking chair in A.M. 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