Canadian cities can evoke different feelings in different people. This is evident in Canadian poetry. “Urban Spell” by Tihanya is a positive view of the urban community. “Urban Renewal” by McAdam conveys life in the city negatively. The poems “Urban Spell” and “Urban Renewal” both discuss life in the city, but it is obvious the moods of the poems differ drastically. “Urban Spell” evokes a positive mood through content and word choice. The content of the poem is a busy, bustling city, which the author learns to see the beauty of. The author, figuratively speaking, wakes up, and momentarily forgets the negative aspects of living in the city: “I grew light-headed as the sun, / something rooted in me / groping for sky, stretching”. This is
