In the poem "Sports Field" by Judith Wright, she uses the story of a sports carnival to describe the life of human being.

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SPORTS FIELD BY JUDITH WRIGHT

In our lives there are always a start and an end. Between The start and the end we have to go through a cycle of life. Our life is like a jigsaw that will fit nicely together. The things that happen to us in our early life can shape the course that our future life will follow. So we have to make the most of the opportunity in hand or we will end up regretting that we have not made the most of it.

Our life is like a sports carnival there are always a start and an end. In the poem “Sports Field” by Judith Wright, she uses the story of a sports carnival to describe the life of human being. Because life is like a race we can either win or lose.

Lots of the dominant imagery in the poem is pertaining to sport. For example “great golden ball that no one ever catches” Judith has used the framing metaphor in which a human life is described in terms of a day from sunrise to sunset. Sunrise symbolizing birth and sunset symbolizing death.

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Theme is defined as a subject of conversation, discussion, thought or composition. The poet has a particular theme in mind when she composes a poem and one of the basic steps in understanding poetry is discovering just what the theme is and one of the main ways in which theme is developed is through imagery. The dictionary meaning for imagery is comparisons, descriptions, and figures of speech that help the mind form forceful or beautiful pictures. Poetry often contains imagery. There are three kinds of imagery which are simile, metaphor, personification.

Simile is a statement that one ...

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