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The Orange Tree
"The Orange Tree" is a poem by Australian poet John Shaw Neilson. It was first published in ''The Bookfellow'' on 15 February 1921, and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies. Outline A young girl is in conversation with the narrator of the poem and discuss the light that is "not of the sky" that lies within the orange grove they see. Analysis ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' states that the poem was "inspired by the beauty of the orange groves at Merbein near Mildura in the Murray River irrigration area". It goes on to note that the poem "has sometimes been interpreted as youth's innate understanding of the natural beauty of life". A writer in ''The Cambridge History of Australian Literature'' described the poem as "symbolism with its sleeves rolled up". Further publications * ''An Australasian Anthology : Australian and New Zealand Poems'' edited by Percival Serle, R. H. Croll, and Frank Wilmot, Collins, 1927 * ''Collected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Shaw Neilson
John Shaw Neilson (1872–1942) was an Australian poet. Slightly built, for most of his life he worked as a labourer, fruit-picking, clearing scrub, navvying and working in quarries, and, after 1928, working as a messenger with the Country Roads Board in Melbourne. Largely untrained and only basically educated, Neilson became known as one of Australia's finest lyric poets, who wrote a great deal about the natural world, and the beauty in it. Early life Neilson was born in Penola, South Australia of purely Scottish ancestry. His grandparents were John Neilson and Jessie MacFarlane of Cupar, Neil Mackinnon of Skye, and Margaret Stuart of Greenock. His mother, Margaret MacKinnon, was born at Dartmoor, Victoria, his father, John Neilson, at Stranraer, Scotland, in 1844. John Neilson senior was brought to South Australia at nine years of age, had practically no education, and was a shepherd, shearer and small farmer all his life. He never had enough money to get good land, and lik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
60 Classic Australian Poems
''60 Classic Australian Poems'' is an anthology of poems edited by Australian writer Geoff Page, published by Hardie Grant Books in 2008. The collection contains 60 poems from various sources and a commentary on each from the editor. Contents * " The Sick Stockrider," Adam Lindsay Gordon * " The Travelling Post Office," A. B. Paterson * "Nationality," Mary Gilmore * " Middleton's Rouseabout", Henry Lawson * "Towards the Source: 1894-97: 2," Christopher Brennan * "The Orange Tree," John Shaw Neilson * " The Play (The Sentimental Bloke)," C. J. Dennis * " I'm Like All Lovers" (aka "Poems XIV"), Lesbia Harford * " Beach Burial," Kenneth Slessor * " The Wind at Your Door," Robert D. FitzGerald * " The Mayan Books," A. D. Hope * " The Commercial Traveller's Wife," Ronald McCuaig * " The Children March," Elizabeth Riddell * "Baiamai's Never-Failing Stream," William Hart-Smith * "Mapooram," Roland Robinson * " Death of a Whale," John Blight * "Leopard-Skin," Douglas Stewart * " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March — Jorge Luis Borges returns to his birthplace, Buenos Aires in Argentina, after a period living with his family in Europe. * August 3 — Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov's fate is sealed when he is arrested in the Soviet Union by the Cheka on charges of being a monarchist; on August 24 the Petrograd Cheka decrees execution of all 61 participants of the "Tagantsev Conspiracy", including Gumilyov. The exact dates and locations of their executions and burials are still unknown. He had divorced Russian poet Anna Akhmatova in 1918. * Autumn–Winter — T. S. Eliot works on ''The Waste Land'' in Margate and Lausanne. * December 31 — Mexican poet Manuel Maples Arce distributes the first Stridentist manifesto, ''Comprimido estridentista'', in the broadsheet ''Actual'' n°1 (Mexico City). * Mrs. C. A. Dawson-Scott founds PEN, an international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |