WAS THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER BASED ON A FACTUAL OR FICTIONAL CHARACTER?
Poet Andrew Barton Patterson was born on a station near Orange New South Wales in 1864. He is best remembered for writing Australia's unofficial anthem “Waltzing Matilda”. In the year 1895 Patterson published a book entitled The Man from Snowy River and other ballads.
In the bush ballad The Man From Snowy River, poet A.B. (Banjo) Patterson managed to capture not only the spirit and essence of the fair dinkum Australian but also gives the listener a vivid and colourful idea in their minds eye of this beautiful and often overlooked part of the Australian landscape. The Man from Snowy River is set in the high country of New South Wales, near Mount Kosciusko. It is the story of a thoroughbred horse that escapes from a pack and joins a herd of bush horses, and about the unlikely hero who rides through the rugged and
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The Man from Snowy River is particularly memorable and popular for a variety of reasons. The story is played out in the traditional sense using a beginning, middle and an end. As the poem progresses it begins to build in momentum and the audience is taken on a wild journey through the imaginary chase in breath taking style.
The poem itself in structured into thirteen stanzas with each stanza containing eight lines. Patterson uses imagery as one of the main techniques to capture the audience’s imagination, with lines like “a stripling on a small and weedy beast” and “where mountain ash and Kurrajong grew wide” giving a description of the character in the first instance and the landscape in the second. The poem is set to a rhythm that is fast pace and builds anticipation throughout using metaphors like “And he raced him down the mountain like a torrent down its bed” and personification such as “the stock whips woke their echoes and they fiercely answered
First of alll, the poem is divided into nine stanzas, where each one has four lines. In addition to that, one can spot a few enjambements for instance (l.9-10). This stylistic device has the function to support the flow of the poem. Furthermore, it is crucial to take a look at the choice of words, when analysing the language.
Each stanza is composed of words that present a logical flow of growth through the entire poem. The words in the poem do not rhyme and the lines are different lengths.
In stanza three, “away” and “stay” and “grow” and “rose” make that stanza really stay put in the mind of the reader. Smart lad, to slip betimes away. From fields where glory does not stay. And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose. The rhyme in this poem brings the reader closer to the irony of the poem and the message of the poem.
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The poem has a great language use. The poet does not use many metaphors, similes, and symbolism, but the words still have resonance, even though the poem is quite short and literal. The poet describes Richard Cory throughout the poem, giving the reader a clear idea of who Richard Cory is. In the first stanza, the poet tells the reader wh... ...
...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.
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In relation to structure and style, the poem contains six stanzas of varying lengths. The first, second, and fourth stanzas
Throughout the poem, the reader believes that Richard Cory is a legendary man. Richard Cory is depicted as a man who kept to himself, the poem states, “He was always...
The construction of the poem is in regular four-line stanzas, of which the first two stanzas provide the exposition, setting the scene; the next three stanzas encompass the major action; and the final two stanzas present the poet's reflection on the meaning of her experience.
The poem is separated into two sections by an empty line. The first section contains twelve lines, all of which contain iambic feet. However the number of feet varies in a specific pattern. The first two lines of the poem are in pentameter, followed by two lines in dimeter, two more lines in pentameter, four lines in dimeter, and finally two lines in pentameter. This pattern gives a visual affect to the reader. Because of the varied length of each line, the poem appears to be in the shape of a river with rapids, as it approaches the drop of a waterfall.
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Through alliteration and imagery, Coleridge turns the words of the poem into a system of symbols that become unfixed to the reader. Coleridge uses alliteration throughout the poem, in which the reader “hovers” between imagination and reality. As the reader moves through the poem, they feel as if they are traveling along a river, “five miles meandering with a mazy motion” (25). The words become a symbol of a slow moving river and as the reader travels along the river, they are also traveling through each stanza. This creates a scene that the viewer can turn words into symbols while in reality they are just reading text. Coleridge is also able to illustrate a suspension of the mind through imagery; done so by producing images that are unfixed to the r...