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Turner and Lawson
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... This archetypal bushman celebrated by such Australian writers as, Banjo Paterson, Miles Franklin, Joseph Furphy, Henry Lawson and Ethel Turner, amoung many others, was predominately male. ...
It is this archetypal bushman that is explored by famous Australian poet, Henry Lawson in much of his work produced during the nineteenth century. Henry Lawson was an Australian poet and writer whom many believe to be the first writer to capture the Australian way of life. At the age of fourteen Lawson became completely deaf and consequently developed an aptitude for observing people and watching the way they act, serving as a contributing factor for the title that he later developed as ‘Australia’s poet of the people’. ... As a child Lawson had experienced the hardships of bush life, an element prevailing in his work. Lawson wrote of people living in remote areas of Australia including, gold-miners, labourers, selectors and drovers, all of whom through whose shear struggle and determination manage to survive the harsh and challenging realities of the Australian bush. ... In ‘The Drovers Wife’, Lawson focuses on a specific aspect of women’s life in the bush as it is imagined in popular notions of Australia’s national identity. It was Lawson’s representation of women and its portrayal of the Australian landscape that influenced the work of many other talented Australians, including artist Russell Drysdale who incorporated the beautiful and unique Australian environment into many of his paintings and writer Barbara Jefferis who created a feminist rewriting of the story from a woman’s point of view. ... In his retelling of the pioneering bushwoman, Lawson romanticises the life of women living in the bush, establishing feelings of sympathy, admiration and respect for her. ...
In Lawson’s portrayal of the Drovers wife, he speaks of her outstanding nobility and determination, he displays sympathy and admiration for her courage and endurance, yet does not imply that her life is unusual or unnatural. ... In his work, Lawson portrays the women as a victim of the harsh and merciless bush environment, “Women are represented as its victims, but they function as foils for man’s heroic actions. ... The bush that Lawson creates in his works has become the terrain on which national pride and identity is built. ... “Lawson knew that her heroism, the halo of glory with which he endowed this bush mum, was of a high order” (Clark in Schaffer, 130). It has often been recognized that there are connections between the female characters in Lawson’s works and his mother who experienced the harshness and demoralisation of the Australian bush. ... The bush which Lawson creates in his works, is one that is not only familiar to Australian’s, but one which they can relate to and from which popular notions of Australian-ness and Australian identity are established and built upon. In his short story Lawson describes the bush,
Bush all round, bush with no horizon, for the country is flat.
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Title: Turner and Lawson
Words: 2358
Rating: None
Pages: 9.4
submitted by: liz000
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