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Famous Australian Bush Ballad 'Waltzing Matilda'

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Waltzing Matilda Deconstruction Speech: Good Morning class and Ms Gauld. Today I will be deconstructing and reciting the very famous Australian Bush Ballad by Banjo Patterson, Waltzing Matilda. Poetry is a very powerful form of writing which shows an authors feelings in multiple ways, metaphorically and as a simile. Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled: "Who 'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me?" Chorus: Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda You 'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled: "You 'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me." Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong. Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee. And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag: "You 'll come a-waltzing …show more content…

Then came a squatter (Local Farmer) and three troopers who asked what the swagman had in his tucker bag and the swagman jumped up and sprang into the billabong. The title of the poem is Aussie slang for travelling on foot (Waltzing) and swag (Matilda). When Banjo Patterson was writing the 'unofficial Australian national anthem ' in 1895 he was staying at Dagworth Station, a sheep and cattle station near Winton. The poem narrates the story of a swagman who was waiting near a billabong boiling a cuppa tea when a sheep comes along and the swagman grabs the jumbuck with glee and then when a farmer and two troopers come along he jumps into the billabong and drowns and now story is that his ghost can be heard at the billabong. This poem reflects on Australian identity by talking about many of things Australia is famous for, holding herds of cattle and people living in

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