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Legend (poem)
"Legend" (1950) is a poem by Australian poet Judith Wright. It was originally published in '' The Bulletin'' on 13 December 1950, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. Synopsis The poem tells the tale of an adventurous young boy who sets out one day with a rifle on his shoulder. At first he aims to conquer nature but as his journey progresses his arrogance fades and he becomes to appreciate the world around him. He finally returns home with a rainbow on his shoulder rather than a rifle. Critical reception In her introduction to Wright's ''Collected Poems'' (1994), Judith Rodriguez noted that this poem is "a repurposing of old folk-tale tropes – gun, sword, evil-omened blackbird – hints at Wright’s burgeoning interest in myth and legend." Publication history After the poem's initial publication in '' The Bulletin'' it was reprinted as follows: * ''Australian Poetry 1951-1952'' edited by K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Wright
Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 191525 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, 1965 and 1967. Biography Judith Wright was born in Armidale, New South Wales. The eldest child of Phillip Wright and his first wife, Ethel, she spent most of her formative years in Brisbane and Sydney. Wright was of Cornish ancestry. Following the early death of her mother, she lived with her aunt and then boarded at New England Girls' School after her father's remarriage in 1929. After graduating, Wright studied philosophy, English, psychology and history at the University of Sydney. At the beginning of World War II, she returned to her father's station (ranch) to help during the shortage of labour caused by the war. Wright's first book of poetry, ''The Moving Image'', was published in 1946 while she was working at the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bulletin (Australian Periodical)
''The Bulletin'' was an Australian weekly magazine based in Sydney and first published in 1880. It featured politics, business, poetry, fiction and humour, alongside cartoons and other illustrations. ''The Bulletin'' exerted significant influence on Australian culture and politics, emerging as "Australia's most popular magazine" by the late 1880s. Jingoistic, xenophobic, anti-imperialist and Republicanism in Australia, republican, it promoted the idea of an Australian national identity distinct from its British colonial origins. Described as "the bushman's bible", ''The Bulletin'' helped cultivate a mythology surrounding the The bush#The Australian bush, Australian bush, with bush poets such as Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson contributing many of their best known works to the publication. After federation of Australia, federation in 1901, ''The Bulletin'' changed owners multiple times and gradually became more conservative in its views while remaining an "organ of Australianism" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Oxford Book Of Australian Verse
The ''New Oxford Book of Australian Verse'' is a major anthology of Australian poetry edited by the poet Les Murray. It was first published in 1986 and since has been expanded twice. The anthology gives a broad view of Australian poetry. It ranges in time from Indigenous Australian oral poetry composed before colonisation up to the late twentieth century. Except for dates it is without the contextualising apparatus of biographies and annotations: "The absence of notes and other prose apparatus is intended to focus attention solely on the poetry, and to leave room for more of." Another uncommon feature is the inclusion of Indigenous oral poems, which are attributed in the book to the language group of their sources. Poets in ''The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse'' Robert Adamson – Allen Afterman – Alan Alexander – Marion Alexopoulos – Richard James Allen – Ethel Anderson – Joan Aronsten – Dorothy Auchterlonie – Awabakal people – Lex Banning – Bruc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1950. Books * James Aldridge – ''The Hunter'' * Jon Cleary – '' Just Let Me Be'' * Miles Franklin – '' Prelude to Waking'' * Catherine Gaskin ** ''All Else is Folly'' ** ''Dust in the Sunlight'' * Frank Hardy – ''Power Without Glory'' * Ion Idriess – '' The Wild White Man of Badu'' * Norman Lindsay – '' Dust or Polish?'' * Philip Lindsay – ''There is No Escape'' * Katharine Susannah Prichard – '' Winged Seeds'' * Nevil Shute – ''A Town Like Alice'' * F. J. Thwaites – '' Oasis of Shalimar'' * E. V. Timms – '' The Beckoning Shore'' Short stories * Nancy Cato – "The Trap" * Alan Marshall – "Street Scene at Midday" * John Morrison – "The Children" * Dal Stivens – "The Batting Wizard from the City" * Judah Waten ** "Mother" ** "Uncle Isaac" Children's and Young Adult fiction * Ivan Southall – ''Meet Simon Black'' * Ruth C. Williams – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *Charles Olson publishes his seminal essay, "Projective Verse". In this, he calls for a poetry of "open field" composition to replace traditional closed poetic forms with an improvised form that should reflect exactly the content of the poem. This form is to be based on the line, and each line is to be a unit of breath and of utterance. The content is to consist of "one perception immediately and directly (leading) to a further perception". This essay becomes a kind of ''de facto'' manifesto for the Black Mountain poets. * George Oppen and his wife, Mary, move from the United States to Mexico, where their links to Communism are less problematic. *The ''Beloit Poetry Journal'' is founded by Robert Glauber and Chad Walsh. It is intended to be a publication of Beloit College since Walsh is an English teacher there. * Pioneer Press founded in Jamaica. * Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Poems
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annex the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establishes his headquarters and the colonies th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry By Judith Wright
Poetry (from the Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet. Poets use a variety of techniques called poetic devices, such as assonance, alliteration, euphony and cacophony, onomatopoeia, rhythm (via metre), and sound symbolism, to produce musical or other artistic effects. They also frequently organize these effects into poetic structures, which may be strict or loose, conventional or invented by the poet. Poetic structures vary dramatically by language and cultural convention, but they often use rhythmic metre (patterns of syllable stress or syllable (mora) weight). They may also use repeating patterns of phonemes, phoneme groups, tones (phonemic pitch shifts found in tonal languages), words, or entire phrases. These include conso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
