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Course Hero. "O Pioneers! Study Guide." Course Hero. 27 Apr. 2018. Web. 29 May 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/O-Pioneers/>.
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Willa Cather
1913
Novel
Historical Fiction
O Pioneers! is written in the third person with an omniscient narrator, who mostly stays close to the main characters' perspectives. Sometimes the narrator takes a much broader perspective, describing the overall action or using imagery to depict nature.
O Pioneers! is primarily in the past tense.
The name of the novel O Pioneers! most likely comes from American poet Walt Whitman's poem titled "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" The poem is an ode to the early pioneers across the United States but is complex in its treatment of the pioneers' relationship with nature. Parallels certainly exist between Whitman's poem and Cather's story set on the Nebraska plains.
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