Editing Bliss Carman (section)

===''Behind the Arras''===
With ''[[#Arras|Behind the Arras]]'' (1895), Carman continued his practice of "bringing together poems that were 'in the same key.' Whereas ''Low Tide on Grand Pré'' is elegiacal and melancholy, ''Songs from Vagabondia'' is mostly light and jaunty, while ''Behind the Arras'' is philosophical and heavy."<ref name="adams"/>

"Behind the Arras" the poem is a long meditation that uses the speaker's house and its many rooms as a symbol of life and its choices. The poem does not succeed: "there are so many asides that the allegory is lost along with any point the poet hoped to make."<ref name="adams"/>