My Country – Dorothea Mackellar My Country is an iconic nationalistic poem about Australia written by Dorothea Mackellar in 1908. Dorothea Mackellar was born in Sydney in 1885. Her education was comprised of private home tutoring until she attended University of Sydney. She travelled broadly with her parents and also become fluent in Spanish‚ French‚ German and Italian. She highly educated and lived an adventurous life. Though raised in a professional urban family‚ Mackellar’s poetry is usually
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Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar better know as Dorothea Mackellar was a famous Australian poet and fiction writer and was born on the 1st of July 1885 to father- physician and parliamentarian Sir Mackellar and mother- Marion Mackellar at Dunra‚ on Point Piper in Sydney. She grew up with two older brothers (Keith and Eric) and one brother (Malcolm) that was younger than her. Dorothea died at the age of sixty two after suffering an extended period of sickness. Dorothea’s poetry is regarded as bush
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MY COUNTRY: ANALYSIS Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’ is a poem expressing Mackellar’s deep passion and love for her country‚ Australia. The whole poem’s intention seems to evoke the sense of praising for the country and express Mackellar’s deep relationship and passion with her land. Mackellar attains this response from the audience by using numerous language techniques such as; Juxtaposition‚ personification‚ sound patterns including alliteration and assonance‚ imagery‚ and paradox. The use of
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Poem Analysis – I am Australian by Bruce Woodley and My Country by Dorothea Mackellar The two poems that I have chosen to analyse are “I am Australian Written by Bruce Woodley and Dobe Newton and “My country” written by Dorothea Mackellar. Both poems portray the love for the country and the sense of belonging as both of these writers are Australian born bush poets. The poem “I am Australian” relates to the concept of belonging to and national identity. Repetition of ’I Am Australian’ reinforces
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BELONGING SPEECH Belonging is a part of life that every individual consciously and subconsciously searches for. What does the term ‘belonging’ mean to you. Is it the feelings of acceptance and understanding through the connections that we make to people‚ places and groups or is just plain old human instinct an inner drive A need that is imprinted into the genetics of people. As an individual we must strive to establish connections that allow us to actualize a sense of belonging. Today I aim to
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the reader of the vivid and unique Australian landscape. The theme of “My Country “is one of loyalty. Mackellar is almost romantic in her descriptions of the various natural wonders of the country; she acknowledges the beauty of England in the first verse but goes on to brag at the wonder of the contrasting beauty of her land. “My Country” is a deeply emotional poem with feelings of great pride in the reader. Mackellar speaks of rural Australia‚ where natural disasters can charge lives over night
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LTA Essay Dorothea Lange‚ The photographer that I did my research on was born on May 26‚ 1895 in Hoboken‚ New Jersey. She lived in New Jersey until she went to study in New York City to become a teacher but later on she decided to leave the teaching career and focus on Photography. While focusing on becoming a Photographer‚ in 1919 she moved to San Francisco and opened a portrait studio in the city. Later in 1935‚ Dorothea was invited to join the Farm Security Administration and after that
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‘My Country’ and ‘No More Boomerang.’ Two of Australia’s most influential and intriguing poems known for enlightening readers about the vast changes throughout Australian history as well as portraying the Australian voices that experienced this transformational era. The composers‚ Dorothea Mackellar and Oodegroo Noonuccal‚ have successfully introduced us to important ideas about the people and the world in which they live through the use of various techniques and poetic devices. The sense of connection
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provides a critical version of the colonisation of the British from the perspective of the numbats‚ the numbats symbolise the aboriginals. Whilst in the poem “My country” by Dorothea Mackellar they show the difference between the two countries‚ Britain and Australia. It also shows that to Dorothea Mackellar nothing can compare to her country‚ Australia. Both texts provide contrasting values. In the beginning of the text The Rabbits‚ the values are overwhelmingly sympathetic towards the indigenous
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lucky country’‚ Australia is a stable‚ democratic society. It is the biggest island on Earth‚ and home to one of the world’s oldest living cultures. From tropical rainforests in the north‚ to the deserts of the Red Centre‚ to the snowfields in the south-east‚ Australia is vast and varied (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trades‚ Unknown date). “Australian poetry is rapidly finding a place in the context of an international poetics.” (Kinsella‚ unknown date) From reading poems such as “My Country”
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