INTRODUCTION

"Introduction" is a short poem by the Canadian poet P. K. Page (Patricia Kathleen Page, 1916–2010). Page was one of the major modern poets of twentieth-century Canada: in her early years she was known for strict meter and vivid imagery, while her later style became more compressed and inward-looking, deeply shaped by her long residence in various countries. She was also a painter, and her experience in the visual arts often seeped into her poetic language, giving her a gift for starting from minute observations and writing her way into questions of perception, time, and self-awareness. Poems titled "Introduction" usually serve as a prelude, an opening, or a piece of self-presentation: it may be the first poem in a collection that sets the tone, establishing voice and focus in a brief space and drawing the reader into the pages that follow. Because this poem is short, circulating versions are mostly single pieces included in anthologies; the exact lines and version information should be confirmed against the anthology one is reading, and no invented plot-level description is offered here. The source registered here is the large e-book compilation "Great English Novels Collection," which indicates that the file is an English-language original within a compilation rather than a standalone published volume; this entry is therefore closer to a data card for a single poem than to the details of a whole book. When reading it, one should place it back in the context of its anthology and note the interplay between the title "Introduction" and the text.