Cross Country Anthology Analysis

Show how images in the poems you studied this year were used to convey ideas and shape your response. Refer to a range of poets and poems in your answer.

John Shaw Neilson, Judith Wright, Ada Cambridge and Rhyll McMaster use imagery such as metaphor, simile, repetition and personification to convey their ideas and influence our responses to their poetry. The use of imagery improves the reader’s ability to understand the ideas within the poem, by relating unknown concepts to known concepts and by using consistent techniques which create a ‘flowing’ poem which in turn influence their response. Relating unknown concepts to known concepts (e.g. human emotions to nature) creates a mental picture for the reader to which they can relate thus they can understand the concepts of the poem. The use of consistent techniques link each stanza to the previous and following stanza which aids the reader’s understanding of the poem also.

Wright makes references to nature symbols to convey...