Comparison Of In Defence Of The Bush By Jack Davis And Banjo Paterson

Connecting back to our Great Grandparents through Oz’s articulate poets of Australian history. Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi! Dalena Angelique Le investigates.
To many, bush poetry may be a bore but citizens of Australia dating back to the very first settlement, beg to differ. Most of Australia’s population have some sort of poetry running through their veins.
Bush poets Henry Lawson, Jack Davis and Banjo Paterson have helped construct new realities of Australia personally through their own distinctive style of writing. With the same passion for Australia and its people, respectively these poets have brought a broader sense of knowledge to the craniums of folks around our nation.
So how do outsiders see our country? Does Australia lack
More often than not when that valued possession is undergoing some form of confrontation, we most probably will get defensive. We’re not the only ones. Banjo Paterson and Jack Davis have both composed poems defending that valued possession.
Paterson’s poem “In Defence of the Bush” as it suggests is defending our home country. When Henry Lawson writes a poem victimizing

Australia, Banjo gets a little upset because he feels as though he is being picked on. How would you feel if somebody made a negative remark against what you love? You could imagine he would feel offended.
As a way to channel how he felt, Banjo Paterson decided to put pen to paper a response to Lawson’s “Up the Country”.
Paterson claims in his poem that Lawson would be “better suited drinking lemon-squash in town”. In this poem, Paterson could be considered proud of Oz.
Since we're on the topic of famous Australian poets, Jack Davis is one of Australia's successful Aboriginal poet. Davis composed the poem "To the others" to target readers and make them feel an ironic feeling of displeasure and sympathy for the Aborigine tribes that suffered in the stolen
The poem “To the others” addresses white settlers who “once smiled a friendly smile". Davis conceived a harsh reality of white Australian settlers, mentioning back to major historical events like the “Pinjarra massacre”. Effectively, he did this on purpose as a mechanism to taunt target audience. Through the use of cold confronting nouns, “massacre”, Davis is able to emphasize on the atrocious nature of which white settlers treated the indigenous.
Speaking of atrocious, Henry Lawson is one to use that kind of word as to display his unkind love for Australia. The poem "Up the Country" was written about the Australian bush in a pessimistic attitude. Henry Lawson feels as though life is "rather more inviting round the coast". He begins to invite us into his horrid experience in the bush.
Through the use of descriptive language -"I have lost", "desolation", "lonely hut", "dismal country", Henry Lawson is able to connotate the bush in a negative light and effectively these words describe a very forlorn feeling about the