Gwendolyn MacEwen and the middle-Eastern Mythology

Among Canadian poets and novelists, Gwendolyn MacEwen is recognized as a prolific and extravagant writer of great tendency towards myth-making and mysticism. MacEwen voices for creating a world which answers her hunger for the ideal, order and perfection. From an early age, she shows an attention to write poetry and her writing concentrates on producing poetry for the sake of both enlightenment and enjoyment. Further, the use of myth in Gwendolyn MacEwen¿s poetry stands for a major technique for rendering the ideal form of life that she finds in the civilizations of the past and in faraway cultures other than Canada. Her extremely profound attraction towards middle-eastern culture is illuminated through her poetry and fiction writings. She aims at writing about the world of the middle-east so as to enrich her Canadian tradition with those great and marvelous monuments of glory her Canadian culture lacks. The turning towards the culture of the middle-east is one attempt by which MacEwen searches the magical and the mythical from the mundane and ordinary world. MacEwen¿s use of mythology is defined in terms of presenting essential view-points which concern modern man¿s existence