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South of My Days - Stanza 3
*Was set in the year 1901
*Wright uses an analogy to describe the sunset. "And the yellow boy died". This analogy paint's a picture in the readers mind of a sun setting.
*Wright uses a simile in the line "the mud round them hardened like iron" to add emphasis on how hot the country gets in summer.
*Wright uses colloquialism to set the tone of a typical Australian country resident. "It was the flies we seen first, swarming like bees". This colloquialism "we seen" gives us the image of a typical Australian, as the grammar of the Australian vocabulary is slang.
*A metaphor is used to show again how hot the summer of 1901 was in the country through the quote "and the river was dust". The cattle came to the river to drink to keep them alive but the river was too dried out.
*Wright uses an analogy to describe the sunset. "And the yellow boy died". This analogy paint's a picture in the readers mind of a sun setting.
*Wright uses a simile in the line "the mud round them hardened like iron" to add emphasis on how hot the country gets in summer.
*Wright uses colloquialism to set the tone of a typical Australian country resident. "It was the flies we seen first, swarming like bees". This colloquialism "we seen" gives us the image of a typical Australian, as the grammar of the Australian vocabulary is slang.
*A metaphor is used to show again how hot the summer of 1901 was in the country through the quote "and the river was dust". The cattle came to the river to drink to keep them alive but the river was too dried out.
South of My Days - Stanza 5 Analysis
* Simile - 'As he shuffles the years like a pack of conjours cards'
* Simile - 'And the frost on the roof cracks like a whip. This indicates a change in tone and brings it back into context.
* Wake old man - She has distanced herself from the man as she referred to him by his name Dan before.
* Simile - 'And the frost on the roof cracks like a whip. This indicates a change in tone and brings it back into context.
* Wake old man - She has distanced herself from the man as she referred to him by his name Dan before.
South of My Days - Stanza 4 analysis
Judith Wright has represented an aspect of the Australian Identity. This is represented in "South of my Days" via the use of a unique Australian image "Thunderbolt at the top of Hungry Hill". Wright has used a cultural allusion to portray this, as it creates the image of the unique Australian outback and a unique person in Australia's history.
Monday, March 2, 2009
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