Summary Of On Home Beaches By Les Murray

Murray’s poetry depicts ordinary lives who struggle to come to terms with personal suffering and daily experience. The themes that are being depicted are suffering and struggle throughout the poem “Widower in the Country” and “On Home Beaches” Poem, both written by Les Murray. The theme suffering and struggle is being explored through the death of the widower’s wife. Similarly, Murray also explores the notion of suffering and struggle in the poem “On Home Beaches”, however the character’s suffering and struggle is from the perspective of physical dissatisfaction unlike in the “Widower in the Country”. The two poems share similar themes, but they depict unlike situations of struggle and suffering.
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