Clancy Of The Overflow Poem

Both David Metzenthen in ‘Boys of Blood and Bone’ and Banjo Pasterson in ‘Clancy of the overflow’ convey ideas about the city and country life in Australia. a very traditional idea of these roles that men are overt and aggressive and women are convert and emotional. This is done by first focusing on the girl’s life which has been wonderful until one particular thing happens suddenly in ‘First Ice.’ While Voznesensky construsts men in stereotypical serious and violent way. Both poets position the reader to feel gender is complicated and intricate.

Voznesensky creates a sad mood where all the things gets frozen when some unhappy things suddenly change to describe a girl’s heart, this positions the reader to feel heartbreak on the girl’s ‘the first ice of human hurt’. This poet tells the first time something happened. It also references the cold weather. It’s about a girl who has been finished with or rejected over the phone. The title ‘First Ice’ suggests that that it is the first time this has happened and that the feelings are cold and icy towards the girl far
Thump-a-man never lets another can over take him. Talks about the bad treatment given to others and highlights how the character ignores what other say. Wandor express man never loses in ‘never spit flame.’ She also foregrounds the man’s spirit on not admitting defeat to any person by ‘never’ lets another over take him’ and ‘never lets a man push in the queue.’ The word ‘never’ has identified the importance of honor for men. She uses repetition to convey the men are most powerful in the universe, ‘thump-a-man-a-day.’ For instance, ‘stand between his woman and world’, positions the reader to feel grandeur, as do the images of ‘fight her battles’ and ‘thump you if it’s not what for you.’ In same ways as in ‘First Ice’ express the weakest of a girl, this poet also ends with a humor way to make reader remember