Poems such as “The Stranger” help reveal the dark periods of Canadian history

by telling us things connected to the dark periods, example: in the poem “The

Stranger,” it tells us about a person, who was forced to go to residential schools,

and how he is escaping. Residential schools are places that a lot of children in

Canada, were forced to attend whether they wanted to, or not. Children were

forced to abandon their family to attend these schools, and in which some of

them did not survive these schools. “The Stranger” poem is a good example,

because it talks about a boy running away from the schools, which is connected

to the dark periods of history. There are different types of poems in the world

that connect to the dark periods, if one reads a poem that talks about residential

schools, wars, deportation, that poem(s) would reveal something about the dark

periods of Canadian history.