Landscape

Some said of the Australian Outback that God never crossed west of the Great Dividing Range. God, of course, had a choice. Not so Durham, exiled to fly-blown Hughenden. The Sub-Inspector and Mrs Durham arrived to a barren landscape dusted in parched hues of thirsty brown, the clay soil of the basaltic plain cracked for want of rain. Mobs of cattle lay slumped amid tufts of dead grass. Occasional gum trees offered scant shade. Dogs panted. Crows flew lazy circles. Dust storms stifled breath.…

Introduction This essay is a critical analysis of the poem Shower by the Australian writer Les Murray. Les Murray was born in 1938 in New South Wales/Australia. He grew up in a poor farming family, and his love for nature and the Australian landscapes, which shows in his poetry, developed early. Murray writes about his “love of the land, the tensions between rural and urban life”, and “the struggle for an independent means of expression” (Poetry archive, date unknown)1. The poem Shower is, as…

The narrative starts with a dull tone, capturing the bleakness of the Australian bush. The use of imperative provides the audience with an image unchanging landscape by imitating an artist painting an artwork. The mundane description of the struggles of man, depicts the barren nature of the bush, as well as encapsulate the sources of conflict, forcing individuals to abandon their inhospitable home and search…

region to reach others places which are more wet and fertile. Travel through a desert is in itself a variant experience similar to a sea voyage or warfare. Because one requires contesting and thriving in unfavourable conditions all the while the landscape affecting the mind and living conditions of the individual. There have always been stories developing around deserts in different countries in different languages. From the stories of Jesus and Prophet Muhammad to…

Cain Demumbra Jennifer Wilson English 1010 27 October 2017 A Pleasant Trip to the Cumberland Plateau A plateau is a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side and is often cut by deep canyons. The Cumberland Plateau goes from Wayne County in Kentucky to Scott County in Tennessee. I will be writing primarily about areas in and around Cumberland County. The Cumberland Plateau includes parts of Wayne and McrCreary counties in Kentucky…

2. Parioli and Flaminio These regions are known for the parks and the famous Villa Borghese gardens which is its focal point. In addition, there is a deviation from historical presence in these localities. Visitors with children find it most amusing to visit this area as children have freedom and multiple options to obtain entertainment starting from play areas (like Casino di Rafaello), puppet theatres and ending with the great Casa del Cinema. Villa Borghese gardens occupy a total space of 148…

Weston has always aimed to make the common place unusual through his work, and he has always been renowned for achieving this mastery of the arts. He has taken everyday objects and reinvented them into complex, seemingly abstract works of art without any darkroom manipulation or editing. He is only more so beloved because of his natural and raw talent for this type of work. Because of his clean-cut processes and keen eye for the basic being extraordinary, he created a wonderful and mysterious…

Amber Ramos History 1000C Prof. Wang 5 December 2015 The Landscape of History How Historians Map The Past The novel The Landscape of History How Historians Map The Past by John Lewis Gaddis touches on subjects such as the idea of history and how historians assume things and about what’s to come in the future. He describes how the only reason that we know things about the future is because of learning from the past historical events. He describes the fact that we can only learn from the…

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Australian Lad Identity Good morning/afternoon Mr. Webster and Year 8 Mahoney. The poem Andy’s Gone with the Cattle was written by a nineteenth-century Australian poet Henry Lawson in 1888, who has become renowned for his depiction of Australian bush life. He had a strong belief that Australian identity should always emanate from its own soil, not from its mother country, Britain. Him being Australian had suffered hardship and unemployment and knew of the characters and lifestyles he talked…