Judith Wright Poems Analysis

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English Assignment 1 by Arjun Sharma

Analysing Judith Wright Poem’s:

Turning Fifty

Imagery:

Sight:- “Sun to rise”

            “still, as the sun comes up”

            “to all I’ve seen and known to this new sun”
            “ outside the green birds come”

              “Their wings wait for the sun”

              “dark, clean”

               “ Though we’ve polluted even this air I breathe”

Sound: “the day will quiet”

Taste: “ I drink my coffee and wait”

           “I taste my fifty years her in the cup”

           “ for bread and water”

            “ bitter”

Touch: “ I raise my cup”

Sound/Rhyme/Rhythm:

  • There is no rhyming scheme in the poem.
  • Alliteration, consistent use of oxymoron’s and  a lot of nature based imagery add to the flow of the poem

Mood/tone:

  • The tone of the poem is very key, for most of the poem the narrators tone is dark and ironic, however in the later stanzas it switches over to a more happier and hopeful tone.
  • The mood of the narrator for key stages of the poem is very reminiscent, regretful and nostalgic as the narrator is reminiscing her past experiences and regretting what she has seen.

Voice/Persona:

  • It has been narrated a point of view of a person who is turning fifty.
  • Talking to the reader a lot throughout the poem, for example in stanza 4 the narrator is telling the reader that he/she has a played major in the pollution of earth.
  • Negative for a major part of the poem, this is evident through the various dark images presented to the reader.
  • However, the tone is more positive and hopeful towards a better environment,

The image of the sun is extremely important throughout the poem.  The image of the sun is perceived as a hopeful and a positive image. However, it is ironic because it is the same sun that rises and sets everyday but is referred to it as new time in her life.

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Imagery:

  • Sight- “Till the solitary tracks etched deeper”
              “Populous before his eyes”
              “The half light pillars of the trees”
              “Campfire’s crimson ring”
              “Star struck darkness cupped him round”
              “Grass is across the wagon tracks”
              “Vineyards cover all the slopes”

 

  • Sound- “Shouted prayers and prophecies”
               “ sweet uneasy sound.”

  • Touch- “Hold it with your rooted hand”
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