Man from Snowy River
The Man from Snowy River written by AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson is a very significant Australian poem that strongly reflects and represents Australia and Australian culture in the 1890s. It uses a variety of literary techniques to further convey the idea of Australia culture and to better create imagery for the reader.
“The man from Snowy River” constructs this view of Australia through its use of literary devices and techniques such as personification. Phrases include ‘cracks had gathered’, ‘woke the echoes’ and ‘mountain ash grew wide’. Banjo Patterson has also used imagery in this poem when talking about the ‘stock horse snuffs’, ‘throw him while the saddle girths would stand’ and ‘blood was fairly up’. Banjo has written the poem in the form of a story with a district beginning, middle and end which is the story of a young cult fled to the bush with the wild brumbies.
Selections of similes such as ‘Hair as while as snow’ and ‘like a torrent down its bed’ were also used alongside imagery techniques to create a more vivid picture of the scenery and personalities in the story. Banjo Paterson used these devices to create a powerful and descriptive visual of the rugged Australian countryside which help to construct a representation of Australia.
Alliteration is also used in ‘Stocks whip with a sharp a sudden’ and ‘thunder of thread’ to make the words flow off the reader’s tongue and make the poem more interesting. Many metaphors such as ‘mountain scrub they flew’ and ‘he bore the badge of gameness’ are also used to further explain and help with the explanation of the story.
Banjo Paterson also uses and makes references to an abundance of descriptive language and imagery techniques to give an idea of Australian wildlife and plant life and a distinctive Australian bush setting, for example, ‘mountain ash and kurrajong grew wide’.
Throughout “The Man from Snowy River”, rhyming couplets such as the following were used to give the poem flair and rhythm:
“Then they halted
“The man from Snowy River” constructs this view of Australia through its use of literary devices and techniques such as personification. Phrases include ‘cracks had gathered’, ‘woke the echoes’ and ‘mountain ash grew wide’. Banjo Patterson has also used imagery in this poem when talking about the ‘stock horse snuffs’, ‘throw him while the saddle girths would stand’ and ‘blood was fairly up’. Banjo has written the poem in the form of a story with a district beginning, middle and end which is the story of a young cult fled to the bush with the wild brumbies.
Selections of similes such as ‘Hair as while as snow’ and ‘like a torrent down its bed’ were also used alongside imagery techniques to create a more vivid picture of the scenery and personalities in the story. Banjo Paterson used these devices to create a powerful and descriptive visual of the rugged Australian countryside which help to construct a representation of Australia.
Alliteration is also used in ‘Stocks whip with a sharp a sudden’ and ‘thunder of thread’ to make the words flow off the reader’s tongue and make the poem more interesting. Many metaphors such as ‘mountain scrub they flew’ and ‘he bore the badge of gameness’ are also used to further explain and help with the explanation of the story.
Banjo Paterson also uses and makes references to an abundance of descriptive language and imagery techniques to give an idea of Australian wildlife and plant life and a distinctive Australian bush setting, for example, ‘mountain ash and kurrajong grew wide’.
Throughout “The Man from Snowy River”, rhyming couplets such as the following were used to give the poem flair and rhythm:
“Then they halted