The Meatworks Robert Gray Analysis

Poetry expresses your feelings and ideas in a distinctive style and rhythm, through the different types of imagery. A main purpose of poetry today is to deepen our understanding of stories. Poets use imagery to describe the setting, and which it strengthens their poem. Robert Gray, an Australian Imagist uses imagery to reinforce journey in his poems. Gray uses strong, vivid, and visual language, so we can picture what he sees. It inspires the society, making us continue reading.This links to how ’Poets paint pictures with words to communicate meaning’ by excessively using imagery. These techniques are in my visual representation, with reference to Gray’s poems, ’The Meat Works’ and ’Old House’. This shows the purpose of poetry, as it is an effective interpretation of Robert Gray’s poems. The perspectives, themes, issues and the challenges the persona has faced were shown.

Robert Gray’s poem, ’The Meatworks’ is about a slaughterhouse, with a theme of death. He describes the gruesome actions happening in a slaughterhouse, in a persona that demonstrates his personal perspective of slaughterhouses. Gray’s use of imagery creates a sense of us being in the

The auditory and visual imagery paints an image for the reader, allowing us to visualise the sounds. The contrast of the slaughterhouse and the beach shows Gray’s attitude, such as “Arm-thick corkscrews, grinding around inside it, meat or not”. He also says “The shiny-bruising beach, in a mauve light”. The imagery is the sounds happening in slaughterhouses and a calming image of the beach.The slaughterhouse is cruel and gruesome environment. A beach is calm, and which it shows a sense of belonging. My visual representation has contrast, such as the top half is the pain, isolation and the bottom is bright and colourful. The differences reflect Robert Gray’s style of poetry, by using imagery to convey