Allusions

[Summer]

Has anyone heard of the poem 'Examiner', by F.R. Scott? Well i need to find some allusions in the poem, but i can't see any. This poem was written not recently and the way of writing poems should be different now, but I don't read poems so I don't know how it has changed. Someone, please help me.

This is the poem:

Examiner
F.R. Scott

The routine trickery of the examination
Baffles these hot and discouraged youths.
Driven by they know not what external pressur
They pour their hated self-analysis
Through the nib of confession, onto the accusatory page.

I, who have plotted their immediate downfall,
I am entrusted with the divine categories,
ABCD and the hell of E,
The parade of prize and the backdoor of pass.

In the tight silence Standing by a green windo
Watching the fertile earth graduate its sons
With more compassion-not commanding the shape
Of stem and stamen, bringing the trees to pass
By shift of sunlight and increase of rain,
For each seed the whole soil, for the inner life
The environment receptive and contributory-
I shudder at the narrow frames of our text-book schools
In which we plant our so various seedlings.

Each brick-walled barracks
Cut into numbered rooms, black-boarded,
Ties the venturing shoot to the master stick;
The screw-desk rows of lads and girls
Subdued in the shade of anadult-
Their acid subsoil-
Shape the new to the old in the ashen garden.

Shall we open the whole skylight of thought
To those tiptoe minds, bring them our frontier worlds
And the boundless uplands of art for their field of growth?
Or shall we pass them the chosen poems with the foot- notes,
Ring the bell on their thoughts, period their play,
Make laws for averages and plans for means,
Print one history book for a whole probince, and
Let ninety thousand read page 10 by Tuesday?

As I gather the inadequate paper evidence, I hear
Across the neat campus lawn
The professional mowers drone, clipping the inch-high green.

[mono]

Hello, Summer. :)
I remember you mentioning this poem in another thread, but I have never read it; regardless, I can share my best attempt.
Firstly, for anyone unfamiliar with 'allusions' in literature and/or poetry, Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=allusion) gives a very good definition:

al-lu-sion n.
1. The act of alluding; indirect reference: Without naming names, the candidate criticized the national leaders by allusion.
2. An instance of indirect reference: an allusion to classical mythology in a poem. See Usage Note at allude.
(3.) passing reference or indirect mention
Out of all literary techniques, I have always probably found allusion the most difficult; one must have a fair amount of reading, and, for this analysis, I rely slightly on this website (http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol04/djwa.htm).
What Scott mainly communicates through this poem, to me, seems multiple puns on education and the often stressful process for students, while an instructor, giving a painfully difficult exam, allows his mind to wander outside a nearby window.
Throughout the poem, Scott focuses much on the simplicity of nature, as compared to the strain placed on young minds with his exam. The article linked above, the essayist refers to William Wordsworth and Matthew Arnold: two English poets highly inspired by nature, which Scott slightly alludes to, but, in my opinion, I can see mixes of the latter Transcendentalists, also writing much of nature, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Ellery Channing.
Scott, in one line, refers to shuddering "at the narrow frames of our text-book schools / In which we plant our so various seedlings." Truly, through textbooks, on which so many instructors rely, assist one in learning much knowledge, but Wordsworth and Arnold (and, I think, Emerson, Thoreau, and Channing) wrote much of the high value of simplicity; taking a difficult exam in a classroom a student could never call "simple," but Scott communicates the simplicity in planting those seeds of knowledge, yet the difficulty in growing them. In essence, the students, in a way, impose the difficulty on themselves. Here, Scott communicates it best: "Shall we open the whole skylight of thought / To those tiptoe minds, bring them our frontier worlds / And the boundless uplands of art for their field of growth?" In this, also in a naturalist and transcendentalist-thinking manner, Scott writes of knowledge seeming but the beginning of a newfound world, perhaps wisdom, beginning with a seed.
Well, Summer, I hope this has helped. Following the link I posted should provide some extra help, but I more posted the link to cite my sources, despite I did not entirely agree with all of the essay's content, adding what I thought fit.
Good luck! ;)