A.D. Hope Australia

Within the 7 stanzas of “Australia”, A.D hope gives us a very negative one-sided approach to the poem. His poetry explores the spiritual poverty of our land. He insinuates that it takes so much to survive which has prevented Australians from reflecting upon their journey through life. A.D hope is looking down on Australia and our way of life. The sombre images of ‘ a nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey’ indicate that Australia is a monotonous and dreary place.

Each stanza consists of four lines with the rhyme scheme being ABBA. Little enjambment exists in

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The dark colours portray the insipidness of the landscape. The tone is mocking Australian culture, our history, our land and they way we live our life. He calls Australia stupid and devoid of culture and he calls the society-‘cultured apes’. He uses derogatory remarks about Australia by calling us ‘second hand Europeans’ referring us to second-class citizens.

‘a women beyond her change in life, a breast

still tender but within the womb is dry

Refers to the fact that Australia is empty the inability to bear children, being infertile a change of life insinuates or implies menopause meaning baron and the land being empty. He talks about the wilderness in the centre of Australia and how if you move away from the population centres of the coastal plain you can escape. D Hope uses imagery as a means to convey meaning to the poem. The poem is reflecting on Australia by how it is both a new and old country, geographically old but politically new, and how it is both European colonial and naturally individual. The alliteration helps to once again convey an image ‘ drab green and desolate grey’.

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Approximate Word count = 454
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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