Andrew Paterson's Distinctive Voice

Through the use of language techniques it is made obvious that everyone has distinctive voices and by exploring and analyzing different people’s voices it is easy to realize that they convey everything you need to know about a person. Undoubtedly Andrew Paterson, Kylie Mole, Martin Luther King Jr. and Earl Spencer’s texts demonstrate their distinctive voices through their beliefs and contexts, creating an underlying meaning. It is with each and every word that these characters create meaning through their distinctive voices.

It is without question that Andrew Paterson’s poetry highlights one of the most illustrious voices in Australian history. Through exploring and analyzing his work it is illuminated that he is a product of his society
As a young nationalist he envisioned an Australia that was strictly Anglo-Saxon. He depicts an Australia where any available jobs went to white men, which is elucidated through his use of all male characters and the further depiction of gender specific roles in ‘A bush christening’ by stating ‘men of religion are scanty’. Also, no mention is made of people belonging to different cultures such as aboriginals in his poems suggesting Paterson believed in an autonomous society. He composed his poems in balladry form using intellectual and rhetorical language, especially in ‘In defense of the bush’ when he employs multiple rhetorical questions, such as ‘did the magpies rouse your slumbers with their carol sweet and strange?’ and ‘did you hear the silver chiming of the bellbirds on the range?’ to engage and entertain his well educated, gentry orientated audience. By exhibiting an Australian landscape and culture that surpasses that of any other, he embodies a society that only accepts those of Anglo-Saxon, catholic decent, which highlights his idealistic and nationalist views of the Australian population, religion, life and culture, glorying this element through his distinctive