Kenneth Slessor - Beach Burial The title of the poem‚ ’Beach Burial’‚ has an ironic slant‚ as beaches are commonly associated with life and pleasure. Instead‚ the poem consists of the opposite: death and sorrow. Similarly‚ the poem first two stanzas include low‚ soft sounds‚ such as "softly"‚ "humbly"‚ "convoys" and "rolls"‚ with the rhythm and alliteration of "swaying and wandering"‚ which present a calm‚ soothing tone. However‚ this soothing calm is more of a grief‚ as illustrated by the onomatopoeia
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Historical Context. Slessor was appointed official war correspondent by the Commonwealth government in February 1940. He served in North Africa‚ Greece and Syria thus saw a good deal of action. He regarded the position as a great honour and was loyal to the traditions and mythology of the Anzacs. Slessor’s was famous for his war diaries and poetry as his experience of being at the war front directly influence his writing. The futility of war is a common theme and sense carried throughout these
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Kenneth Slessor was a well known Australian poet whom was also an official correspondent during the second World War. Slessor was born on the 27th of March 1901 in Orange‚ New South Wales. Kenneth Slessor was one of Australia’s leading poets. He was notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into the Australian poetry. William Street and Beach Burial are the two poems that contain such techniques which shape significant ideas in Slessor’s poetry. William Street is a poem
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dark warship riding there below‚ I have lived many lives‚ and this one life Of Joe‚ long dead‚ who lives between five bells. Deep and dissolving verticals of light Ferry the falls of moonshine down. Five bells Coldly rung out in a machine’s voice. Night and water Pour to one rip of darkness‚ the Harbour floats In the air‚ the Cross hangs upside-down in water. Why do I think of you‚ dead man‚ why thieve These profitless lodgings from the flukes of thought Anchored in Time? You have gone from earth
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In the poem ‘South Country’ Kenneth Slessor adopts a cynical view of the Australian landscape through a series of imagery‚ with a judgemental tone. He takes the reader on a journey from the bushy bushland to the harsh desert. In stanza 1‚ he suggests their departure from the city with “after the whey faced anonymity”‚ metaphorically referring to the idea of a crowded city of white people‚ undiluted and without any other races and colours mixed into the scene‚ perhaps signifying his sympathy towards
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poetry. In this case‚ Kenneth Slessor’s poetry will be analysed to show his effectiveness. William Street is a poem which discusses about the beauty and ugliness of the red light district. Country Towns‚ in contrast‚ romanticizes the country and its sleepy atmosphere. In addition‚ Night-Ride is also sleepy in tone and tells about a train trip Slessor ttok. Finally‚ Beach Burial will be discussed about its anti-war themes. William Street is a very colourful poem by Slessor. With the use of imagery
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Allie Comley Dr McCormick 11-6-12 Night Ride In this short story‚ we learn about a thirteen year old boy named Wilgus‚ who‚ by the end of the story‚ has had his rite of passage with the help of his uncle Delmer. We all know that one adult who is very irresponsible and the person we would want to keep our kids away from. That is the kind of person Delmer is. He drinks in front of Wilgus and even lets Wilgus drink too. He also drives while he is drunk‚ which‚ in this day and age‚ is illegal
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The theme in the poem “Homecoming”‚ by Bruce Dawe‚ is the feeling and belonging of home and how you can die for your country‚ yet receive inhumane like treatment. The theme in “Beach Burial”‚ by Kenneth Slessor‚ is the pointlessness of war. The two poems are very similar‚ yet very different‚ in meaning and tone‚ through their subjects‚ themes‚ techniques and structure. Both poems relate to the same post-war event; bringing the corpses of soldiers back from war. However‚ in “Homecoming” the corpses
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this fourwheeler trip for months‚ five days and four nights of mudding and four wheeling in Leader Minnesota in a four wheeler park called Spider lake‚ it was hundreds of miles of open trails ready to be ridden‚ consisting of swamps‚ slues‚ mud holes‚ and the lodge and a swimming pool‚ and it consists of the lake‚ Spider lake which gives it the name Spider lake fourwheeler park‚ which is located in Leader Minnesota. The night ride‚ the night rides were fun and kind of sketchy at the same time‚ but
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How do Frost and Slessor convey their ideas in their respective poems‚ “The Road Not Taken” and “Beach Burial”? “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a first person narrative tale of a monumental moment in the author’s life. He is faced between the choice of a moment and a lifetime manifested in his poem. Walking down a rural road the narrator encounters a point on his travel that diverges into two separate similar paths. In Robert Frost’s poem
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