Slessor Beach Burial Essay

‘Beach Burial’- is poem about the soldiers that loss their life through war. From the begging the hype is built up throughout the story, paragraph by paragraph the tension builds which is done in such away it’s quite confronting for the reader. In the begging of the poem Slessor sets a quite a soft and calm mood but blunt where “convoys of dead sailors come’. The image of the beach is set out to represent beauty and purity. Slessor uses a subdued choice of words to describe the effects of war like ‘softly, humbly, sway’ and ‘wonder’ witch aren’t normally associated with war, This positions the audience feel irony towards the soldiers how their life’s have been consumed by the effects of war like time and death, Even though this poem was written from an Australian author, it does not state a specific country or side, and it doesn’t mention anything about being victories or losing, Slessor wrote the poem this way so all soldiers, regardless of side could relate to the fact that, in death, all are joined together as one.
Slessor wrote the poem this way because there is no beauty and peace involved with war. The reader attention is then drawn to the fact that the dead soldiers are pluck from the shallows and then buried in burrows where the significance and respect for the dead are undermined, then mentions the nakedness of the dead soldiers what’s nonliteral but meaning their venerable and they have been stripped off their dignity where they have not been given a proper burial. The image of the beach is still represented in this paragraph and like many beaches its’’ commonly represents a beautiful place but has been effected by the after mark of war and now lay the dead soldiers under the