加拿大建国之初,英裔和法裔两大创始民族之间的矛盾依然尖锐,国家缺乏凝聚力。19世纪80至90年代,在“加拿大文学之父”查尔斯·罗伯茨的领导下,一批英裔联邦诗人以“加拿大第一”运动精神为宗旨,借诗言志,抒发爱国之情,为使英裔倡导的新民族主义占据主流地位起了推波助澜的作用。这一时期多数联邦诗人通过自然抒情诗宣传加拿大新民族主义,罗伯茨则借助政治诗《加拿大》展示了民族主义情结,进一步提升了联邦诗人的影响力。 At the beginning of the founding of Canada, the contradictions between the two founding ethnic groups of British and French origin remained sharp and the state lacks cohesion. Under the leadership of Charles Roberts, father of Canadian literature in the 1880s, a group of British-American poets, based on the spirit of “Canada’s First” Movement, expressed their patriotism through poetry and speeches Love has played a role in fueling the predominance of neo-nationalism advocated by English-speaking nations. During this period, most federal poets promoted Canadian neo-nationalism through natural lyric poetry while Roberts used the political poem “Canada” to demonstrate the nationalist complex and further enhance the influence of the federal poets.