Judith Wright's "Australia 1970": Poem Analysis

The poem Australia 1970 written by Judith Wright with the tone of the poem being anger and negative she expresses that she all hatred is what she has with the country and the way humans are not being considerate of the animals she is taking their side. She expresses how animals need to start fighting back when the people within it take what's theirs from habitats to their own kind. This poem has many similes within it For example on the first stanza of the poem, it says «Die like a wild country, like the eagle hawk, dangerous till the last breaths gone».

The eagle hawk will keep on fighting until it is dead and the author is speaking directly to nature telling the nature to fight back just as the eagle hawk does. She continues uses these analogies throughout the story by mentioning animals, for example, the author states «Die like the tiger snake that hisses such pure hatred from it is pain a fills the killers dreams with fear like suicides invading the sun» she continues naming animals that coexist in this environment that is being destroyed and is basically saying to fight back and be like them. She then later in the poem says «Though we corrupt you with our torturing mind. Stay obstinate; stay blind» she is then taking responsibility for causing this damage. Another example of her taking responsibility is when she says this «for we are conquerors and self-prisoners» this shows she is not blaming others and not herself, by her using we and not the word then she helps us create an image in our mind of everyone corrupting the environment for our sake and not thinking about how animals are consistently getting stripped of their natural states.

The mood of this poem The Darkling Thrush written by Thomas Hardy is very gloomy. He is a pretty negative guy, therefore, he is more pessimistic than optimistic. It is the end of the year which means it is winter there and he states «And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day» this means since the sun is not out as much and goes down early this is making people feel lonely and they are filled with comfortless vibes it almost seems. People do not want to go outside for it is too cold and there is no sun to warm them. They feel dim and dark just like how the outside looks. He makes life seem so pointless like we are just constantly in this sorrow state with the weather like this. Later in the poem, it states «and every spirit upon earth seemed fervourless as people all around are lifeless the author then uses similes to compare and say their spirits were «shrunken hard and dry». He uses this comparison to how he feels saying they felt as he did.

The poem's mood then shifts and the mood completely changes once he hears a voice that arouses from among. The poem states «At once a voice arose from among. The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong of joy illimited». This sentence implies the sound comes from a bird since the sounds come from a twig, the bird is beaten up but the author then realizes how even though the bird is not in the best shape it still releases the amount of happiness and joy it has. He does not know why or how something out there in the world finds even one ounce of happiness and reason in this world to live with any happiness and yet this question is not answered within this poem.