Waltzing Matilda

In The Landlady, Roald Dahl, the author, used five unusually words that consist of, brisk, congenial, conjured, rapacious, and compulsion. Brisk has an origin of French and English. The meaning of brisk is the same as, active, fast, and/or energetic. In the story Roald had said “He walked briskly down the street,” so he was saying that Billy was walking quickly or fast down the street. The next word that he used was congenial, which means, pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or interests that are similar to one's own. I was unable to find the origin, but I do know that this word was used more in the early 18th century. In the story it says, “ On the other hand, a pub would be more congenial than a boarding house.”, so when Billy…

many well-known ballads such as “The Man from Snowy River “and “Clancy of the Overflow” also his infamous ballad “Waltzing Matilda”. “Waltzing Matilda” was originally created in 1895 and the title is Australian slang for ‘going walkabout with your swag’. The ballad narrates the story of a lonely, wondering worker or swagman preparing a drink of billy tea at a bush camp in outback Australia. Swagman were common throughout the Depression years (1890’s) as they travelled from town to town trying…

The film Matilda is about a bright little girl who is born into a nuclear family who always mistreats her. Matilda had never received a proper care from her parents, but at the age of four she learned how to take care of herself. She was always left home alone while her parents would go to work, play bingo, and her older brother would go to school. While everyone was gone, Matilda would go to the library to read and rent books. The father didn’t really acknowledged Matilda except when asking for…

canvas, the shores spritzed with stories of its beauty. The relevance of bush poetry is still eminently evident throughout society and oral storytelling today. In storytelling today, it is present in the use of diction, in the representation of outcasts in society and in the concern for anti-authoritarianism as a quintessential Australian value. Bush poetry also helps build national character, keeping Australia’s history alive years on. Through the analysis of Waltzing Matilda against Khe Sanh,…

Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson was born in 1864 and was most famously known for writing the poem ‘Waltzing Matilda’ which he wrote in late 1895. Aside from being a poet, Banjo was known for being a public solicitor, journalist, war correspondent and a soldier fighting primarily in World War I. Banjo had a life full of achievements and experienced great success with his poems but he has taken a lot of criticism throughout his life about his depiction of rural Australia. So was Andrew Barton…

Sea Shepherd’s aim is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of marine wildlife, in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. They achieved this in the 2009/2010 campaign Operation Waltzing Matilda. The Sea Shepherd fleet followed the Japanese whaling fleet for three weeks and not a single whale was killed. The operation was hailed as a success, and cost Japan tens of millions of dollars in loses. Discuss the role of your non-state actor in relation to the system of global…

drove at 80 minutes, Lady Ashley’s cattle have been successfully delivered on the boat before King Carney’s cattle. Baz Luhrman shows wide camera angles and uses Neil Fletcher; King Carney’s right hand man as an outcast against the Darwin community. In the camera shots Baz Luhrman uses to show how Australians celebrate all the men in and around the bar have a drink in their hands raising their drinks to Lady Ashley. All the shots Baz Luhrman shows of this scene has a multitude of men outside,…

to my next point. While we sing our anthem we don’t think about the meaning of it one of the reasons is, in fact, the ancient words like "our home is GIRT by seas" I only know what it means as I have done the research about the song and what it the words meant. Not a lot of people have time to research about one song as it is just dumb to waste an hour of your time learning what this song means even if you do know what they symbolize think about migrates I don’t think they will waste time on…

A comparison between two short poems written in the same verse form, showing how different effects may be produced in the same form. Trochaic octametre is a fairly uncommon verse form and is not often seen in many poetic works; it consists of eight feet of consecutively stressed followed by unstressed syllables in each line, making it a difficult style to pull off. However, when it is employed, it crafts a winding narrative within the poem that captivates the reader and takes them along on a…

discriminated against due to her gender. However, in the second bar scene, the Drover and the other patrons do not accept the barman’s ruling, and oppose his refusal to give Lady Ashley a drink. The fact that the barman concedes is reflective of the woman’s rights movement and the fact the women “were finally included into the magic circle of egalitarianism”. After the bombing of Darwin, the barman initially refused to serve the Drover’s brother-in-law a drink from the same size and style of…