The Bush Ranger Poetic Devices

Contrary to most poets who wrote in this style, Banjo Paterson had experience living in the bush, meaning that he had a unique understanding of what life in the bush entailed. It was through these poems that the bush became central to Australian identity. Even though the bush has arguably become less important to Australians since the time of these poems, the values of resilience, fortitude and strength that came with the concept have remained essential to Australian identity.

Mark Bowden once wrote, “No one gets behind, you know that.” The story, Black Hawk Down, provides information not only about war, but values in life. Mark Bowden expresses these values throughout the story and they are beneficial for a teenager in high school. In this story, the soldiers experience the true horror of the Battle of Mogadishu and are exposed to combat. Mark Bowden expresses the terrors of this war through the voices of the soldiers on both the American side and the Somali side. Although this book has many unpleasant features, it can educate an American teen valuable lessons. The book, Black Hawk Down, provides academic, social, and nationalistic benefits for a high school student.

My interest in researching the Texas Rangers was to find out how they came to be, how did their legacy survive and what has become of them? The Rangers are unique frontiersman for this great state of Texas. This state held every hope and hardship that pioneers faced in the nation’s westward expansion. For every story I read I felt I was looking through a window about the past and trying the get a whole new picture of today’s Texas Rangers. The Texas Ranger are respected, admired, famous law enforcement in the world, they have been around for more than 200 years.

Bush poetry gives people a unique and interesting prospective into the people who made this country the way it is today and the history behind it. Clancy of the Overflow is a well known bush poem by poet AB “Banjo” Paterson. Clancy of the overflow is about a person from the city who met a drover/ shearer named Clancy. After meeting him he becomes jealous of Clancy’s lifestyle which is better than his city life. In this poem Banjo uses a variety of poetic devices to get his message across like the use of suggestive language, descriptive language and imagery.

In conclusion, Banjo uses many poetic devises. Through the use of rhyming, personification and imagery and etc., Banjo attracts a lot of readers, creates strength of feeling, enhances the poem's mood, builds tension and evokes emotions in the reader. This poem increases interest and

In Poetry authors use a range of literary techniques. These techniques can include the use of rhyme, alliteration, personification, similes, metaphors and imagery. The poems that will be compared in this essay include: My Country by Dorothea Mackellar, The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Old Man Platypus by Banjo Patterson.

Poems consist of a variation of different techniques in order to convey a message or idea to readers. Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy, Adrienne Rich, Bruce Dawe and Robert Browning are great poets who explore these issues, conveying their emotions, which influences a perception of an issue. In each of their poems they express the hidden message of hope, along with their main message. They use similar techniques to express their ideas, which illustrates their purpose to the reader.

The passage The Great American Desert, an excerpt from The Journey Home, published in 1977, written by Edward Abbey uses rhetorical strategies in attempt to emphasize his argument against the desert. The excerpt is from an environmental book and is meant to argue against desertification using repetition, alliteration, personification, and rhetorical questions to show what a desert actually is and it's true lack of beauty. The first section starts with two rhetorical questions, “Why go into the desert? Really, why do it?”

Write a research-based two-voice poem spoken by Nya and Silva (the main characters from A Long Walk to Water) that expresses your ideas about how these characters survived in challenging environments.

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Mayflies p. 8, by Paul Fleischman’s Newbery Medal winner. Poetry encourages reading and the development of oral language. Writing poems provide techniques in writing, and enrich experiences across the curriculum. (Poetry)

One of Thoreau’s purposes within the chapter, is to parallel humans and animals and their actions. Using stylistic features such as questioning, tone, and language which are influenced by the historical time period, Thoreau explains rather than blatantly states his views and opinions. Allowing for logic within his argument, vouching for its validity at the same time. The use of allusions within the passage of the “Ant War” compares the wars of humans to the ones in nature; Bunker Hill, the Trojan War, and the American Revolution being a few. Adding sarcastic commentary such as that the ants fought for principle “...as much as our ancestors, and not to avoid a three-penny tax on their tea,” (Thoreau 248) implies that the wars of humans are not any more

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is similar to the poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the first influential black poets in American literature, We Wear the Mask. Both had parts were they it told what they were thinking but didn’t act out. They also have in common that people tell lies. Calpurnia "wears a mask" in chapter 12 by telling lies, she didn’t say what was on her mind, and she behaves differently.

Interest is further maintained throughout the poem by the use of unique literary techniques. Unlike other poems, ‘Famous’ does not rhyme nor does it follow any specific structure. It does, however, correspond with the spontaneity of incorporating everyday objects by not following a set structure. Throughout the poem, sibilance, anaphora, parallelism and allusion have been incorporated to achieve a constant face paced movement throughout the initial seven stanzas of the poem. These stanzas reflect a constant change in setting, replicating the insightful thoughts of an everyday person throughout their day, passing insignificant objects yet subconsciously identifying their importance. This fast paced movement is maintained through the use of anaphora in lines one, two, five and seven. In conjunction with anaphora, personification is used to enhance the already vivid image

The two poems I have chosen to analyse are ‘Exposure’ and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’. Both of these were written by Wilfred Owen

Several poems in the anthology explore the intensity of human emotion. Explore this theme, referring to these three poems in detail and by referencing at least three other poems from your wider reading.’