Australia And A Song Of The Republic Annotated

Q4. What is the cost of a car? Compare and contrast the ways in which poets use literary romanticism and/or realism in their portrayal of Australian culture and identity. Australia’s Resonation In the poems Australia (1939) and A Song of the Republic (1887), A.D. Hope and Lawson describe Australia’s growth from a British penal colony to something resembling a unified nation. This is articulated through the tone of each of these poems that highlights their opposing perspectives on the emerging nation. Throughout A Song of the Republic, Lawson uses a confrontational approach towards the reader and uses an anaphora saying, “Sons of the South,” for the first two lines of each stanza, chanting a patriotic incitement for Australians to defend their

Hope bluntly describes the vast lands as being long gone and are infested with colonisers but Lawson claims that it is God-given and rightfully belongs to Australians (white Australians or colonisers). In Australia, it says the cities are filled with “second-hand Europeans [who] pullulate” Australia, which suggests they are uprooting this new-world-country’s resources as a domain of punishment for European convicts. In contrast to this, Lawson argues that Australia is theirs to keep as it is “the Land that belongs to you.” Using high modality, he instils an idea of anti-authoritarianism which was a key part of the romantic period where people would reject the conventional ideas of society and instead embrace idealism and individualism through creative

Hope also metaphorically describes the land as a “field of uniform modern wars,” which points out the pervasive conflict that prevails and has made Australia into a bleak no-man’s land of callousness. Australia’s repetitive, dull landscape is further demonstrated as “her five cities” are “robber state[s]” and are “like, five teeming sores,” this simile used, implies that the colonisers have a parasitical relationship with Australia’s resources, and its innocent life is being sickly drained out. Yet, despite this, he calls patriots the “type who will inhabit the dying earth” which, like Lawson saying the “land belongs to you [Australians],” A.D. Hope denotes Australians as unwavering as they will foolishly persist in staying squatted on their land even when they are faced with threat. On the contrary, Lawson compares Australia to “the land of E’en” and calls it a “paradise” which illustrates a heavenly, beautiful land that is rich with growth and implies that it is prosperous because of the transcendental comparisons. He argues that Australia is the “Young Tree Green,” and this further implies the idea of Australia as a growing country and is ready to emerge. However, A.D. Hope uses a metaphor to illustrate Australia as a “woman beyond her change of life” as if it has passed its peak and is no longer