Distinctively Visual
By Maddy Arnold
Good afternoon teachers and fellow year 12 students, today I would like to talk about how distinctively visual images from Henry Lawson’s texts ‘The Drover’s Wife” and “The Loaded Dog” are conveyed. The Australian outback suggest a sense of isolation and distinctiveness however provides the responder with a sense of identity of the individual. The Drover’s Wife portrays the ruggedness and unforgiving nature of the bush while The Loaded Dog focuses on the humorous language to explain the outback.
Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Drover’s Wife’ is about a woman who in lives an unforgiving and dangerous life in the outback-Australian environment. The narrator’s lack of naming the drover’s wife helps shape the identity of the persona. This creates an image of the struggles faced by the woman. Lawson helps us to empathies as a responder as she reflects on the difficulties of raising children by herself through floods, drought and disease. “she is not a coward, but recent events have shaken her nerves”.
The effect of the harsh environment sustained by the drover’s wife is clearly seen through Lawson’s description of her physical appearance, “The gaunt sun-browned bush women”. This is then reinforced by the cruel and provoking imagery used to portray her children “ragged, dried up look”. Powerful imagery of the physical toll on this “once young city woman” is applicable in establishing a strong impression of the woman battling against isolation of the bush.
Alliteration used in the Drover’s Wife creates a sense of isolation “The two roomed house built from round timber slabs and stringy bark and floored with split slabs”, this gives us as a responder an image of the harsh living conditions faced by the drovers wife and her children. “Bush in bush all round bush with no horizon” and “nineteen miles to the nearest sign of civilization” are also examples of the isolation from society.
In contrast, ‘The Loaded Dog” uses humor to portray visual
Good afternoon teachers and fellow year 12 students, today I would like to talk about how distinctively visual images from Henry Lawson’s texts ‘The Drover’s Wife” and “The Loaded Dog” are conveyed. The Australian outback suggest a sense of isolation and distinctiveness however provides the responder with a sense of identity of the individual. The Drover’s Wife portrays the ruggedness and unforgiving nature of the bush while The Loaded Dog focuses on the humorous language to explain the outback.
Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Drover’s Wife’ is about a woman who in lives an unforgiving and dangerous life in the outback-Australian environment. The narrator’s lack of naming the drover’s wife helps shape the identity of the persona. This creates an image of the struggles faced by the woman. Lawson helps us to empathies as a responder as she reflects on the difficulties of raising children by herself through floods, drought and disease. “she is not a coward, but recent events have shaken her nerves”.
The effect of the harsh environment sustained by the drover’s wife is clearly seen through Lawson’s description of her physical appearance, “The gaunt sun-browned bush women”. This is then reinforced by the cruel and provoking imagery used to portray her children “ragged, dried up look”. Powerful imagery of the physical toll on this “once young city woman” is applicable in establishing a strong impression of the woman battling against isolation of the bush.
Alliteration used in the Drover’s Wife creates a sense of isolation “The two roomed house built from round timber slabs and stringy bark and floored with split slabs”, this gives us as a responder an image of the harsh living conditions faced by the drovers wife and her children. “Bush in bush all round bush with no horizon” and “nineteen miles to the nearest sign of civilization” are also examples of the isolation from society.
In contrast, ‘The Loaded Dog” uses humor to portray visual