Visual Techniques In Henry Lawson's 'In A Dry Season'

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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

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