Visions/Landscapes of Australia

Robert Gray - Late Ferry
1. "And out beyond the tomato stake patch of the yachts, with their orange lights; leaving this tuberous small bay for the city across an empty dark"
  1. metaphor in the tomato stake patch of yachts
  2. orange lights, the colour being associated with warmth
  3. the bay is small, warm and welcoming - the city large, empty and dark
2. "..the longer white lights feel nervously about in the blackness, towards here, like hands after the light switch"
  1. anxiosness is seen in the way the person in the poem sees the lights moving -"nervously". Also uncertainty
  2. Simile, like hands after a light switch
  3. trembling of the lights from the ripples of the water
3. "I'll lose sight of the ferry soon - I can see it while it's on darkness, and it seems honeycomb, filled as it is with yellow light."
  1. anxiousness in losing sight of the ferry.
  2. juxtaposition in the light of the ferry on the darkness
  3. the light of the ferry is described as being yellow, and compared to honeycomb. Honeycomb and the colour yellow are associated with warmth, and these are the feelings that Gray evokes in his reader
Japanese Story
1. "There's nothing sick about death - it's life. Your problem is you think it can be avoided, but it can't."
2. "Even when you're here you're not really here."
Robert Gray - Flame and Dangling Wire
1. "A sour smoke is hauled out everywhere, thin, like rope"
  1. Gray evokes the senses - like smell - in the reader as well as emotions
  2. alliteration, sour smoke
  3. rhyming in smoke and rope
2. "And we come to a landscape of tin cans, of cars like skulls, that is rolling in its sand dune shapes"
  1. similes and metaphors
  2. emulating natural, beautiful settings; which serves to only make it uglier
  3. death, represented in the skulls. ugly imagery
3. "And standing where I se the mirage of the city I realise I am in the future. This is how it shall be after men have gone. It will be made of things that worked
  1. person is in the future, metaphorically speaking
  2. past tense adds to the revelation
4. "...I notice an old radio, that spills its dangling wire - and I realise that somehwere the voices it received are still travelling..."
  1. Even though the radio has died, its transmissions continue to exist
    1. the world continues on after death. death is a part of life.
  2. metaphor in the travelling voices
  3. "spills its dangling wire" -personifies the radio, makes it feel like a person with their guts hanging out of their stomach

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