One of Dutton's famous poems is Two Windmill, it uses many devices
One of Dutton's famous poems is Two Windmill, it uses many devices
Think about the major past wars and there operations to save your country. What people don’t know about is the smaller operations that aren’t talked about as much as the rest. These smaller operations deserve just as much credit as the bigger operations because without these little operations we wouldn’t be where we are today. This missions and operations are what led to the bigger more important missions and operations.…
Donald Bruce Dawe was born in 1930 in Geelong, Victoria, Melbourne, he is one of the most successful and prolific contemporary poets of Australia. He struggled with his studies, leaving school when he was sixteen, working as a gardener and postman. In 1954 he entered the University of Melbourne. He grew up in a household where his father, a farm labourer, was often unemployed and absent from home. The poem ‘Drifters’ by Bruce Dawe should be selected for the prestigious honour of ‘Best Contemporary Australian Poem’ as it is a realism poem, describes Australian lifestyle felicitously, which lead the Australian contemporary audiences easily fall in the poem and deeply engraved in their mind. Bruce Dawe drifted through his early years showing promise as a writer but finding little direction, which characterises his poetry and gives a voice to so-called ordinary Australians. Bruce Dawe has published 12 books of poetry. His poetries are described about life and how people deal with everyday obstacles. The poem that I am nominating is ‘Drifters’ by Bruce Dawe.…
In this response, I intend to discuss Arthur Streeton’s Fire’s On, a 183.8 x 122.5cm oil on canvas painting, produced in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia in 1891, after “nationalistic sentiment” had taken its toll with the centennial of the European settlement. Fire’s On depicts the steep “walls of rock” “crowned” with “bronze green” “gums” and the “crest mouth” that he encountered on his journey through the Blue Mountains. Streeton created this painting to justly portray the rough, “glor[ious]”, unsung landscape of Australia, namely its “great, gold plains” and “hot, trying winds”. Thus, Streeton defied the inaccurate depictions of Australian landscape produced in the early nineteenth century by early immigrants, showing “green…
Bruce Dawe, an Australian known poet, born 1930 is still one of the biggest selling and most highly regarded poets of Australia. His ability to write such influential poems has made an impact on a number of people, as each poem can be related to the ordinary living lives of Australians throughout the years. Bruce Dawe's poems are interesting because they comment on the lives of ordinary people. This statement is agreed on. In relation to the statement, three key poems can be linked being Enter Without So Much as Knocking (1959), Homo Suburbiensis (1964) and Drifters (1968).…
Patterson and Dyson were more conservative, nationalistic and anti-imperialist in their visions of Australia and its national direction, so they objected to any ties of British ownership and governing. It is therefore not surprising (especially when both poems emerged at a similar time) that the images of Australia that each piece of work constructed were very similar. Both lead its readers to two opposing images within the nation- the bush and the city, giving an over idealized view of the country and making the latter seem utterly unlivable. Both describe an Australian character or ‘legend’ in the poem, that is significant in personifying characteristics of their version of national identity.…
The History of EMS PARM 102 Prof. Rita Elliott Ivy Tech Community College Feb. 3, 2009 The beginnings of EMS were nothing like the EMS that we know today. The first emergency medical teams started in first half of the 20thcentury and operated out of funeral homes. They would transport the sick and injured to hospitals as well as take the deceased to the funeral home. The funeral home employees had little knowledge of first aid and were in the business only because the hearses were large enough to transport the stretchers. After World War IIthe first real ambulance services began to appear. Although it was a step in a good direction away from the funeral home service, the new ambulance crews were still untrained and poorly equipped. There were no minimum training requirements for employees, so in most cases basic first aid was the only knowledge they had. It was still better than nothing at all. In the late 60’s a national standard of training for pre-hospital care personnel was established. It involved a series of presentations, manuals, and slides. It was the first attempt at basic training requirements for EMS. 9-1-1 had its beginnings in the late 60’s also. The number was beginning to be recognized and set aside as the number for emergencies. Although the EMS system was beginning to improve in the 60’s, there was still a lack of consistency. Few states had written a standard of training yet. The ambulances and the equipment carried on them was poor quality also. The aid bags could weigh as much as 100 pounds and was very inconvenient to carry in emergencies. Radio communication in the 60’s was also unreliable. An estimated five percent of ambulances had any communication with hospitals. Also, many ambulances would only transport patients to their own hospital, regardless of how close another hospital was, or how much better equipped another hospital was for the situation. In 1970the national registry of Emergency Medical Technicians was established. The…
Together in their respective poems Lawson and Wright both convey the hardship and challenges that living in the Australian Outback brings. Both poets demonstrate an ever…
Better responses demonstrated an insightful understanding of how, through his poetic visions of Australia, Stewart also communicates Australian visions of egalitarianism, an appreciation of Australian flora and fauna, and respect for Indigenous rights. These responses showed an awareness of the poet’s social and historical context and often projected the visions revealed in the poems onto contemporary Australian society. Most candidates demonstrated a sound understanding of poetic techniques through their analysis of at least two poems. Weaker responses relied on a recount of the poem’s subject matter or a listing of techniques.…
By way of a varied use of descriptive language the short stories of Lawson and poetry of Mackellar show that it is true that distinctively visual texts allow the reader to vividly imagine and gain insights into the characters, relationships and settings. Lonely drover’s wives, Bushmen and fettlers, as well as the setting of a sunburnt Australian landscape are brought to life and into unique relationship, in the visual imagery of Henry Lawson and Dorothea Mackellar’s compositions. Henry Lawson created a strong image of the uniquely Australian bush and the hardships of the people who have lived and worked there. The two important stories which reveal Lawson’s vision are, ‘In a Dry Season’ and ‘The Drover’s Wife’. He draws on the tradition of oral storytelling to make the bush come alive through colloquial language and idiom. Lawson uses a dry, sardonic humor to entertain and provoke empathy for his characters. His descriptions of the various settings are blunt but precise with illustrative adjectives and nouns of a “horrible” land. Contrastingly, the related text, Dorothea Mackellar’s poem, ‘My Country’, expresses a vivid and memorable panorama of place, drawing on a kaleidoscope palette of nouns, rhyme and first person perspective to ingrain in the reader’s imagination her passionate vision of the land and “love for her country, Australia.…
Australian Bush Ballads have captured the essence of early Australian life. Bush Ballads do more than this they often deal with the hardships encountered living on the land as well as the people of the bush. The poetry of “Henry Lawson” and “Banjo Paterson” deal with these concepts. While Banjo Paterson defends and romanticises the bush in his many ballads for example “Clancy of the Overflow”, Henry Lawson provides a more balanced view of the bush in his poems, in particular “Up the Country.”…
This essay will analyse the poems Clancy of the Overflow written by A.B. Paterson, and compare and contrast it with Andy's Gone With Cattle by Henry Lawson. Both of these poems are about life without the men that have 'gone a-droving' in Queensland. Droving is one of the original stereotypes of Australia, and is an important part of our identity.…
To what extent has your study of Australian poetry challenged your understanding of Australian identity?…
Mackellar introduces the idea of Australia’s distinctiveness firstly in the opening two stanzas, by juxtaposing Australia’s wild landscape compared to England’s tame landscape. England’s landscape is described as with ‘grey-blue distance, brown streams and soft, dim skies. Where as Australia’s landscape is depicted as ‘a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains’. This characterisation of the two countries imply that the poems persona believes that Australia’s wildness makes it beautiful and incomparable to England’s landscape, which is the completely opposite.…
The second poem “My Country” by Dorothea Mackellar portrays the beauty of the Australian outback landscape and she declares her love of the country. It was written in order to inform people about the beauty and the wilderness of this country. Both of these poems relate to the theme of belonging to the country Australia.…
Poets employ a variety of literary devices throughout their poems. These literary devices can serve to represent marginalised groups in ways that challenge their reader’ original perceptions. Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Judith Wright are two poets who have applied this strategy. Although Noonuccal and Wright both share a passion for writing, they came from vastly different contexts. Judith Wright was born a white woman in Armidale, New South Wales, in 1915 – the eldest child of Phillip and Ethel Wright. She began writing poetry to please her mother, who died in 1927 when Wright was twelve. Two years later, in 1929, she was enrolled in the New England Girls’ School – where her desire to become a poet increased. Between 1937 and 1938 she travelled Europe, and until 1944 she worked as a secretary-stenographer and clerk until making her poetry debut in 1946 with The Moving Image. Oodgeroo Noonuccal was born as Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, an Aboriginal woman, on Stradbroke Island in 1920 – the second-youngest child of Ted and Lucy Ruska. Noonuccal’s father instilled a fierce sense of justice in her from a young age and they shared his dreaming totem Kabul (the carpet snake). She left school at the age of thirteen, working as a domestic servant until 1939 – when she volunteered for the Australian Women’s Army Service. She reached the rank of corporal and “noticed a big difference in the way she was treated once she enlisted. She experienced social equality”. In 1964, nearly twenty years after Judith Wright’s first publication, Noonuccal published a ‘collection of verse’ titled We Are Going. Despite their difference in backgrounds, Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Judith Wright were both extremely concerned with the representations of Aboriginal people and this shone through in their poetry, where they use the literary devices at their disposal to represent…