Human Subconsciousness In Gwendolyn Macewen's Dark Pines Under Water
Ever wonder what lies in your subconscious mind? Or what you think about when you sleep, but do not remember? In “Dark Pines Under Water” poet Gwendolyn MacEwen shows that human subconsciousness is a place of exploration, and hides the more deep parts of one’s inward self. The land “turns you inward” as one sees what is really on the inside. The subconsciousness of a person is what they may not know or realize about themselves. A visual metaphor is used to display subconsciousness as “a forest in a furtive lake.” It is not natural to have a forest in a lake, nor to have something so large and majestic as a forest hidden in a lake. “Furtive” means to hide because one thinks they will get in trouble for something. The lake hides the forest attempting