I've always thought "the Hundredth Meridian" was a metaphor for the 49th parallel, and all it means to Canadian Artists. They have to go there, they must be carried there to be considered successful, but they lose themselves there. If you change "The Great Plains" could be the flat countryside of central North America, or it could be plain as in ordinary, nondistinct, homoginized, as American Music tends to become. Much of what he cries to be carried away from (swollen city-breeze, acts of enormity) seem very american.
The song is an acknowledgement that they may have to travel south of 49 (across the 100th), but they will not allow it to change them.
I've always thought "the Hundredth Meridian" was a metaphor for the 49th parallel, and all it means to Canadian Artists. They have to go there, they must be carried there to be considered successful, but they lose themselves there. If you change "The Great Plains" could be the flat countryside of central North America, or it could be plain as in ordinary, nondistinct, homoginized, as American Music tends to become. Much of what he cries to be carried away from (swollen city-breeze, acts of enormity) seem very american.
The song is an acknowledgement that they may have to travel south of 49 (across the 100th), but they will not allow it to change them.
wrong. why would a longitudinal line be a metaphor for a parallel? they are completely opposite
wrong. why would a longitudinal line be a metaphor for a parallel? they are completely opposite