'South of My Days'
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Figurative imagery is used when Wright writes... | "...bony slopes wincing under the winter.../clean, lean, hungry country". |
| Personification is used when Wright writes... | "the old roof cracks its joints". |
| Australian vocabulary of... | "droving". |
| Ordinary sentence structure is reversed when... | when the poet writes in the voice of Dan, "ninetenn-one it was". Wright does this to distinguish between the colloquial voice of Dan as he reminisces, and the formal voice of the poet that is the voice of reality, "No one is listening". It also adds to the realism of the poem, because this is the way Dan would speak aloud, if he really was telling the poem. |
| Australian references: | "Bogongs in the autumn", McIntyre, 'Thunderbolt' the legendary bushranger. |
| Thunderbolt is a bushranger renowned for... | committing over 200 crimes over 6 and a half years in northern NSW and escaping from the Cockatoo Island prison with the help of his wife in the 1850s and 60s. |
| Dan may embellish his story when he says, | "I give him a wink. I wouldn't wait long, Fred/not if I was you; the troopers are just behind". |
| Dan does not tell his story chronologically - | "he shuffles the years like a pack of conjuror's card". |
| Wright uses similes such as... | "the frost on the roof cracks like a whip" and "he shuffles the years like a pack of conjuror's cards". |
| Dan and Thunderbolt epitomise... | Australian attitudes and values. eg. Ned Kelly. |
| Double alliteration is used in the line... | "Seventy summers are hived in him like old honey." |
| The phrase, "Seventy summers are hived in him like old honey" means that | his stories have matured, sweetened and concentrated over time so that reliving his past, the summer of his youth, is what protects him from the reality of the harsh winter and his approaching death. |
| What can old Dan do with his stories? | "Old Dan can spin [a story] into a blanket against the winter". |
| The first two stanzas, and the last stanza are in the voice of... | the poet's persona. |
| The third and fourth stanzas are in the voice of... | old Dan. |
| 'South of My Days' was published in... | 1946, in 'The Moving Image'. |
| Old Dan relives... | the summer of his youth. |
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