Judith Wright
Judith wright
Judith wright raises an aspect of Australia’s past to the level of myth thereby contributing to a sense of tradition that the poet feels is so important for the development of Australian identity, a task to which she is fully committed.
Good morning class mates and teachers, Today I will be analyzing Judith Wright’s compassionate on the important issue of Australian identity that has been conveyed in her poetry.
Poetry is a tool for expression of one’s voice.
I believe that Judith Wright uses her poetry to express the Australian identity she experienced through her lifetime, particularly because of her rural heritage in country New South Wales. The Poems I will be comparing to show this are platypus and South of My days.
Poetry is a tool for expression for ones voice. The first poem I will be using to prove this is the poem South of My days which was written as part of the “Moving image collection”
In “South of my days”, Judith Wright reveals her connection with the land, and the beauty she sees behind its dryness. Throughout the poem, Wright portrays the environment of New England as the way it is. By using personification when she says “blood’s country”, the poet shows her closeness with it, however it is not the visual image that arouses Wright’s deepest emotions. Instead, her love is sympathetic. The rocky qualities of the country give the impressions that the hills find winter’s severity difficult to endure. Using personification and assonance, she observes “bony slopes wincing under the winter”.
The picture is one of coldness, as the words “blew”, “wincing”, “winter” present. It is also one of fragility as words “delicate”, “bony”, “outline” suggest. The environment is not only chilling, but hard like “granite”. Write expresses her understanding of the harshness in this “clean, lean, hungry country” using assonance together with consonance. By the word “lean”, she infers that the country is not as fertile as it could be. The
Judith wright raises an aspect of Australia’s past to the level of myth thereby contributing to a sense of tradition that the poet feels is so important for the development of Australian identity, a task to which she is fully committed.
Good morning class mates and teachers, Today I will be analyzing Judith Wright’s compassionate on the important issue of Australian identity that has been conveyed in her poetry.
Poetry is a tool for expression of one’s voice.
I believe that Judith Wright uses her poetry to express the Australian identity she experienced through her lifetime, particularly because of her rural heritage in country New South Wales. The Poems I will be comparing to show this are platypus and South of My days.
Poetry is a tool for expression for ones voice. The first poem I will be using to prove this is the poem South of My days which was written as part of the “Moving image collection”
In “South of my days”, Judith Wright reveals her connection with the land, and the beauty she sees behind its dryness. Throughout the poem, Wright portrays the environment of New England as the way it is. By using personification when she says “blood’s country”, the poet shows her closeness with it, however it is not the visual image that arouses Wright’s deepest emotions. Instead, her love is sympathetic. The rocky qualities of the country give the impressions that the hills find winter’s severity difficult to endure. Using personification and assonance, she observes “bony slopes wincing under the winter”.
The picture is one of coldness, as the words “blew”, “wincing”, “winter” present. It is also one of fragility as words “delicate”, “bony”, “outline” suggest. The environment is not only chilling, but hard like “granite”. Write expresses her understanding of the harshness in this “clean, lean, hungry country” using assonance together with consonance. By the word “lean”, she infers that the country is not as fertile as it could be. The