Driving Through Sawmill Towns by Les Murray In the high cool country‚ having come from the clouds‚ down a tilting road Into a distant valley‚ You drive without haste. Your windscreen parts the forest‚ Swaying and glancing‚ and
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written by widely appreciated poets are Driving Through Sawmill Towns by Les Murray and Small Town Dance by Judith Wright. Not only do these texts speak economically about the theme of shrivelling sad country towns but they make it more of an acceptable phenomenon by expressing it through the use of poetic devices in such a way that it is more acceptable. In Murrays poem‚ his persona speaks from the perspective of a driver of a car traveling through a rural town. The poets highly selective diction such
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revealed through the works of Les Murray. Les Murray is a famous Australian poet who was born and raised in the country and is a dedicated Roman Catholic. This is reflected in the poems ‘Driving through Sawmill Towns’ and ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’. His laconic and personal poetic style reinforces the messages he attempts to convey to his audience through the use of rich symbolism and imagery. The poem ‘Driving through Sawmill Towns’ describes the people and the scenery of a rural town. In the
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communities‚ lifestyles we align ourselves with. Les Murray’s poems “The Widower in the Country” and “The Away-Bound Train” explore the sense of belonging by his speaker in different ways. We experience through “The Widower in the Country” a loss of a sense of belonging caused by the death of the speaker’s wife. In “The Away-Bound Train” the speaker describes the rural landscape in his poetry‚ and his sense of belonging to it. Les Murray in “The Widower in the Country” uses descriptive imagery
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In the poem‚ ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’ by ‘Les Murray’ reflects upon a different type of society as feelings and emotions are kept secret. In the first stanza of the poem Murray uses imagery to paint a picture in the readers mind of a busy city coming to a halt‚ ‘Pitt Street is baked up for almost half a mile.’ At the end of the stanza Murray again uses imagery to make the readers see a man crying. People walk by him and see him crying but they do not stop him. The man in this poem is not
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An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow-Les Murray. In Les Murray’s ’An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’‚ there is a clear unconventional portrayal of the hero‚ and he shows many heroic concepts as a result of the dramatic techniques used to convey the notion of the weeping man not being society’s ’conventional perception’ of a hero. The poems persona is simply an un-named ’observer’ who tells the story‚ in a third person present tense narrative form ("they") which assists in portraying the notion that a weeping
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concepts as a reflection to the current time. Les Murray’s “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow” and “The Mitchells” are examples of texts that do not need a use by date. These two poems highlight major themes and are considered to be of relevance to today’s time. Les Murray himself has embraced Catholicism and his religious perceptions have had a deep influence on much of his poetry. In his poem “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow”‚ it is evident that Les Murray’s religious insights have been mentioned
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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
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Essay - ’Widower in the Country’ Thursday‚ 14 June 2012 12:19 PM Les Murray’s poem ’Widower in the Country’ highlights the painful effect of the death of a loved one. His tone in this poem is one of grief and loneliness‚ and through strong imagery and emotive language‚ the composer draws out empathy and interest from the reader. This poem describes how repetitive life becomes after someone very close to you passes away. The composer conveys a strong feeling of grief and pain in the poem
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human experiences. In Les Murray’s poetry he portrays aspects of human experiences in the poem “Spring Hail” as he reminisces of his childhood experiences and also the human experiences that involve sorrow in “The Widower in The Country”. Firstly‚ the poem ‘The Widower in the Country’ conveys the grief and emotions accompanying the loss of a loved one. He captures depressing emotions by using connotations of ‘Widower’ and ‘Country’ in the title. By using these connotations Murray associates the loneliness
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