The 19th century Australian Novelist and short story writer, Henry Lawson, uses distinctly visual techniques of writing, which allowing responders to visualize the hardships faced during . Australia’s colonial period The iconic story “The Drover’s Wife” reveals the hardships faced by women and the sacrifices and adjustments they made to survive. Lawson’s story “In a Dry Season” gives the reader an insight into the difficult lives of Australians during the colonial period. The Artwork “Sunday Evening” by Russell Drysdale stresses the hardships faced in the Australian outback. His artwork compliments Henry Lawson short stories. Australian women during the colonial period faced any hardships; however they made …show more content…
The artwork Sunday evening compliment this story since the saline image is the women who looks exhausted and her skin looks tanned by the harsh sun, similar to the drovers wife “gaunt, sun browned”. The colour of the sky makes the painting seem dull and depressing, however the shadows of the figures display that the sun is sharp and tiring the women. The bike in the distance is symbolic for transportation and the endless land and hill revels that civilisation is miles away similar to the Drover’s Wife “nineteen miles to the nearest civilisation”. The women is revealed as resourceful, since she is using a cart as a chair, similar to the drover’s wife which used “mad bullock…skinned him an got seventeen-and-six”. The women has also created a washing line out of string and a stick, showing that she has adjusted and uses what is available, just like the drovers wife. This woman is also nameless, since the title of the painting doesn’t reveal her name, similar to the title of the drover’s wife. The landscape in the visual is …show more content…
The understatement “unemployed starts cheerfully with a letter…and nothing else” indicates that the young man has no money causing the reader to visualize the empty pocket. The denotation “travels for a night and day without a bite to eat” allows you understand his desperation due to his poverty. Furthermore, we are able to imagine the frustration and hopelessness he feel “finds that the station is eighty or a hundred mile away”. The uses of or indicates that this desperate walk of seeking employment is endless; no one knows when it ends. However Lawson sheds a light upon this “explain…publican and a coach-driver. God bless the publicans and the coach-driver” allowing you to see that mateship will help the young man. Lawson motivates his audience about an egalitarian Australia society “God forgive our social system”, since they are one a journey with him where they see the poverty and hardships of other. Lawson’s description “native industry…three tiles, a chimney pot…length of piping on the slab” cause the reader to visualize how they can do a lot with very little that they have, making them feel sympathetic”. The metaphoric phrase “animated mummy of a swagman” allows you to see that the sun has beaten this man and caused him to look like death, revelling the poverty of the man. Lawson makes the reader imagine that death is constant in the bush
Today, I will be telling my view on Australian texts. I will be analysing the text “The Exotic Rissole” by Tanveer Ahmed.
‘The Drover’s Wife’ opens with a vivid visual image of the house which becomes a character in itself, the lexical word chain “round timber, slabs, and stringy bark, and floored with split slabs” shows us the poor, rough materials used to build only what is necessary to survive. Thus, we can visualise the simplistic nature of the lives the drover’s wife and her children live in their environment. Strong visual imagery is employed to depict the landscape; “Bush all round – bush with no horizon, for the country is flat. No ranges in the distance… No undergrowth”. The repetition of “no” emphasises the lack of distinguishing features, the land is monotonous and contains “nothing to relieve the eye”. The environment is isolated; they are alone “There is nothing to see, however, and not a soul to meet”. This helps the audience to develop an understanding of the isolation and loneliness of Australians living in the bush during the Colonial
One of the many factors that have contributed to the success of Australian poetry both locally and internationally is the insightful commentary or depiction of issues uniquely Australian or strongly applicable to Australia. Many Australian poets have been and are fascinated by the issues relevant to Australia. Many in fact nearly all of these poets have been influenced or have experienced the subject matter they are discussing. These poets range from Oodgeroo Noonuccal Aboriginal and women’s rights activist to Banjo Patterson describing life in the bush. Bruce Dawe is also one of these poets. His insightful representation of the dreary, depressing life of many stay at home mothers in “Up the Wall” is a brilliant example of a poem strongly relevant to Australia.
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The suburban house, as the film’s setting and sphere of action, is extraordinary partly because it is ‘next-door’ to an airport. The odd layout of this backyard is underlined because their suburb meets the kind of architectural cast-offs often found at the margins of big cities. This mix of the humble backyard with the international vectors of travel, tourism and international trade plays out in the film’s narrative which connects the domestic and the distant. The Castle displays many locations and landscapes easily identified as being unique of Australia- The ‘Aussy’ barbeque and patio setup, greyhound racetrack and poolroom, just to name a few. The neighbours of the Kerrigan’s are a symbol representing the multicultural diversi...
In 1951 Arthur visited Central Australia; here he saw the predicament of the Aborigines for the first time. He was astounded by the place these people called ‘home’. This trip moved him greatly and his critically renowned Bride Series he was to construct in years to follow was inspired by his experience with the Aborigines. (Insert pic of Aborigines the 1950’s)
...atures that make Australia what it is today. He uses the words “sunlit plain”, “vision splendid” and “wondrous glory” to provide the reader with an image that represents Australia’s reminiscent landscape. This is done to capture the reader’s thoughts in an attempt to persuade them. Paterson silences the negative aspects of rural life and the positive aspects of city life.
... 1960’s were against intellect and to discourage, they resorted to physical abuse or bullying. The aforementioned builds empathy and positions the reader to challenge the views of the 1960’s. Similarly when the Shire President who should be a good guy, is in reality a heavy alcoholic and someone who sexually abuses his own children. Henceforth this displays moral duality, a major theme, and correspondingly includes the 1960’s Australian context of alcoholism. Moral duality is also presented through Ruth Bucktin, the Sargent, Mrs Wishart, the town folk and even Eliza Wishart. A big issue of the 1960’s was the racism that was present. Likewise, Corrigan exhibits racism especially on the Vietnamese, Lu family. It is the time of the Vietnam War, national service, recruiting men to fight in Vietnam, and the fear of communism was very much present throughout Australia.
Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.” (Fitzgerald 14). Work for the men in the Valley of the Ashes is depressing and monotonous, workers shovel and clean up the ashes that originate from industrial corporations. While the sorrowful, blue men push through their painful servitude, they are being watched by the empty eyes of T.J Eckleburg. “The eyes of God” watch through his yellow spectacles as this never ending cycle continues. Similar to The Great Gatsby, Powaqqatsi shows workers carrying bags of dirt and mud up hills and on trails in slow motion. Presenting the workers in slow motion displays their stagnant and repetitive labor. Shown by the spinning face, their work is a cycle that moves, but never progresses. The children riding the ferris wheel also displays movement, but no progression. Since the children are in a working class, the image of them on the ferris wheel represents that one day, they will be stuck in a cycle that
When Dwyer moves his focus from the character development within the environment of the sanctuary to that of the trench warfare, he brings into play a range of literary comparisons. There is a comparison made by Dwyer of the romanticised image of the Australian rural male to that of the soldier suffering in the trenches (Dwyer, 1997). As, the harsh environment, is seen to bring out in many of the men the harshness of their instinct for survival. Which is an aspect, as expressed by Dwyer, Jim struggles with (Dwyer, 1997).
Love has the power to do anything. Love can heal and love can hurt. Love is something that is indescribable and difficult to understand. Love is a feeling that cannot be accurately expressed by a word. In the poem “The Rain” by Robert Creeley, the experience of love is painted and explored through a metaphor. The speaker in the poem compares love to rain and he explains how he wants love to be like rain. Love is a beautiful concept and through the abstract comparison to rain a person is assisted in developing a concrete understanding of what love is. True beauty is illuminated by true love and vice versa. In other words, the beauty of love and all that it entails is something true.
Pung explains that “This was a deliberate and light-hearted attempt to shift away from the two decades of ‘migrant’ or ‘ethnic’ literature narratives that have been published in Australia” (Arcangelo,1). Yet the beginning of the story is scattered with examples of the Pung family mirroring this expectation, though how she describes the way her family marvels at new resources Australia has to offer “Wah, so many things about this new country that are so taken-for-granted!” (9).
In the novel Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden, introduces characters whose lifestyle and identities are changed by the introduction of European culture but as well as their own cultural traditions. Boyden is able to use “healing” as a trope to discuss the reliance of community and spirituality of Niska and Xavier. It shows how the viewpoints of the aboriginal people differ from the western and use solutions that are native based, which mostly revolves around the history of the aboriginal people during the real WW1. As Neta Gordon discuss , in her article, Thomas King’s point which states “most of us [aboriginal writers] have consciously set our literature in the present, a period that . . . allows us the opportunity to create for ourselves
The short-story "The Drover's Wife" is written by Henry Lawson, Australia's most famous short-story writer and poet. "The Drover's Wife" is probably Lawson's best-known work, and was first published in the collection entitled "While the Billy Boils" in 1892. Lawson was deeply interested in the effects of the harsh Australian outback on people's lives, having himself spent 18 months in the bush. This was expressed in a number of so-called "bush ballads" and stories, "The Drover's Wife" being one of them.
The gestural and heavy working of the paint and the contrasting colors make the painting appear active yet are arduous to follow. The defining element of Woman and Bicycle is the presence of the black lines that do most of the work in terms of identifying the figure. Through the wild nature of the brushwork, color, and composition of the painting, it can be implied that the artist is making an implication towards the wild nature of even the most proper of women.