Samuel Wagan Watson Night Racing Essay

Our knowledge of the generic conventions used in poetry influences our understanding of the text. “The Firstborn”, a poem by Aboriginal author Jack Davis, enables the reader to determine the poem as a graphic protest about the extinction of and discrimination against the Australian Indigenous people, and the loss of their ethnicity, as their world collides with the Western culture. By focussing on my understanding of both generic conventions and author’s context, I am able to conclude that the poem concerns a tragedy within the Aboriginal community.

Through the use of poetic devices, the author has successfully encouraged the audience to explore their thoughts on Australian identity and to reflect on our nation’s history.

Robert Grey is an imagist who paints with words. Using imagery in his poems, Grey is able to visually communicate emotions and ideas. His poetry is concerned with the urbanisation effects on Australian nature and changes it brought within the lifestyle. This is metaphorically expressed in the poem ‘Journey: The North Coast’ as he dwells on the sheer beauty that can be found in the natural world in contrast to the alienated environments manufactured by men. In contrast to the idea of modernisation, Grey also expresses values of love and respect for the environment and nature through the physical and emotional journey. Additionally, the idea of Australian landscapes and strong sense of

In conclusion I was personally moved by this well-crafted poem because of the poetic techniques used and the setting. The setting was what particularly moved me because of how much I personally relate to the ocean. On my trips to Byron Bay and the Sunshine Coast I have seen waves that were both angry and calm. I have seen the waves smash against the rocks and the helpless swimmers get dragged out by the strong current. However I have never thought about the ocean in way the poet has exposed it. I believe that this poem has touched my heart like no other poem ever

Readers are aware of this ambiguity. Here the heaviest flashback thoughts and the short-lasting issue set up a continuing contrast throughout the poem, which enchants its effect.

The depth of the poem, in both its poetry and narration, is incredible, and in the

Henry Lawson’s ‘The Drover’s wife’ is a personal story depicting an archetypal portrait of all drovers wives of the 1900’s. Lawson represents the wives through a woman characterised as a strong, protective mother who has the ability to fight against the disasters of the Australian bush. Lawson’s use of alliteration, “The bush with no horizon.. no undergrowth, nothing to relieve the eye” emphasises the isolation of the drover’s wife from the rest of the world. The unequivocal tone and hyperbolic image of ‘no horizon’, portrays the harsh landscape allowing the responders to empathise with the loneliness. The provocative image of the Drover’s wife and its environment enhances her development of resilience, tenacity and fortitude which is vital

The racial struggles of Australia tend to closely mimic those of the United States. Claudia Rankine’s collection of poems, “Citizen: An American Lyric” explores these themes. The lyrical themes found in Midnight Oil’s songs relate to Citizen as they exemplify the racial struggle between the Aborigines and the white settlers of Australia which can easily be related to the struggle of the blacks and whites in the US which is exemplified in the songs Beds Are Burning, Warakurna, and The Dead Heart.

The poem is layered in a way that allows the reader to understand

Have a look at these quotes from the poem, with our suggestions about how to 'read ' them:

My first reaction to this poem is how am I going to write a 400-word response to a poem that has sixteen words? Even though I feel that I am a decent writer who has the skills to elaborate on the most subject matter, this assignment is daunting, to say the least. At any rate, I will try my best.

With the reader/ response technique of writing, we can see and feel all of the emotions that the author is projecting through the telling of this poem.

When reading the poem, the following lines present themselves as what I “see” when listening to the

The reason why I chose this poem out of the other seven choices that were given was because this poem captivated me. The poem itself has a lot of parts in which it amazed me, but what

The first line of the poem is very interesting. As the poet starts the poem with the word