Summary Of Spring Hail By Les Murray

The use of poetry is made to capture some aspects of human experiences. In Les Murray’s poetry he portrays aspects of human experiences in the poem “Spring Hail” as he reminisces of his childhood experiences and also the human experiences that involve sorrow in “The Widower in The Country”. Firstly, the poem ‘The Widower in the Country’ conveys the grief and emotions accompanying the loss of a loved one. He captures depressing emotions by using connotations of ‘Widower’ and ‘Country’ in the title. By using these connotations Murray associates the loneliness of being a widower and the seclusion of the country to enhance the sorrow of losing a loved one. Another example where Murray portrays the loneliness of this particular widower is shown in his sense of
The metaphor of: “bright webbed visions smeared on the dark of me thoughts” mirrors this complicated mix. The metaphors suggest that the ‘bright webbed visions’ are his jovial memories of being with his wife and yet ‘the dark of his thoughts’ being his grief is so great that it smears the good memories. And the lack of punctuation suggests the uncontrollable type of sadness that is seen in films. Another way Murray captures the Man’s loneliness is by the The distressing experience for the widower is reflected once more in the landscape. Murray describes his emotions by personifying the landscape in “…the Christmas paddocks aching in the heat.” In this comparison Murray presents In Murray’s poem “Spring Hail” he reminisces about an old memory of him as a child that got caught in a hail storm with his pony. He uses onomatopoeia in: “…and then the hammering faltered.” to allow the reader to relive his past experience of getting trapped in a hail storm. By using onomatopoeia Murray creates sensory imagery to describe his experience and to intensify the reader’s insight of his