The Cicadas Analysis
The Cicadas Analysis
By: Shane Bombardieri Poetry analysis: The Cicadas by Judith Wright Judith Wright was a political poet who concerned herself with many social issues which eventually became extremely personal to her. These issues manifested themselves in her poetry. She mixed words with deeds which explored the spiritual dimension of the Australian land. She believed that the role of the poet was that of a public figure with a responsibility for opposing the negative social forces and inhumane attitudes that degrade human life and the environment. Consequently nothing in Judith Wrights poems are inane or arbitrary, everything serves a specific purpose. The values that she concerns her poetry with are same values that she fought for in the political arena. Judith Wright uses figurative language in her poetry as a vehicle to foreground these values and personal and social issues, and is evident in the poem, “The Cicadas.” Figurative language is Language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary or literal meaning of the words such as metaphor, slimily, personification, symbolism and paradoxes.
Judith Wright felt it was her role to protect those who could not protect them self and passionately involved herself in many social issues such as the conservation of the environment and protection of the Aboriginal people, which in itself also became a personal issue of Wrights. Many of her beliefs stemmed from her father who taught her that we are a part of the environment, not the rulers of it. In the mid-sixties she co-founded the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland and increasingly threw herself into active environmental work and continued to do so until the last decade of her life. Along with her profound awareness of environmental problems came a new understanding of the terrible wrongs inflicted on the Aboriginal people, Consequently urging her to become involved in organizations attempting to rectify these situations.
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By: Shane Bombardieri Poetry analysis: The Cicadas by Judith Wright Judith Wright was a political poet who concerned herself with many social issues which eventually became extremely personal to her. These issues manifested themselves in her poetry. She mixed words with deeds which explored the spiritual dimension of the Australian land. She believed that the role of the poet was that of a public figure with a responsibility for opposing the negative social forces and inhumane attitudes that degrade human life and the environment. Consequently nothing in Judith Wrights poems are inane or arbitrary, everything serves a specific purpose. The values that she concerns her poetry with are same values that she fought for in the political arena. Judith Wright uses figurative language in her poetry as a vehicle to foreground these values and personal and social issues, and is evident in the poem, “The Cicadas.” Figurative language is Language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary or literal meaning of the words such as metaphor, slimily, personification, symbolism and paradoxes.
Judith Wright felt it was her role to protect those who could not protect them self and passionately involved herself in many social issues such as the conservation of the environment and protection of the Aboriginal people, which in itself also became a personal issue of Wrights. Many of her beliefs stemmed from her father who taught her that we are a part of the environment, not the rulers of it. In the mid-sixties she co-founded the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland and increasingly threw herself into active environmental work and continued to do so until the last decade of her life. Along with her profound awareness of environmental problems came a new understanding of the terrible wrongs inflicted on the Aboriginal people, Consequently urging her to become involved in organizations attempting to rectify these situations.
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