Beach Burial – Kenneth Slessor 1944 Kenneth Slessor‚ author of Beach Burial‚ was the Australian Official Correspondent in El Alamein‚ the Middle East during WWII. The author drew from his own experiences to write Beach Burial‚ a poem about the aftermath of a battle during WWII. It is a realistic and somber tribute to soldiers of all nations that died in the war. It illustrates how they are all united by one common enemy; death. It breaks the conventional war poem structure‚ as it is not a celebration
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Beach Burial- Kenneth Slessor The 1944 poem “Beach Burial”‚ was written about Kenneth Slessors experience during World War II in El Alamein‚ Egypt. Kenneth Slessor was an Australian poet and journalist‚ who was the correspondent reporting from North Africa. Unlike other poems written about war‚ “Beach burial” is neither nationalistic nor patriotically written and does not commemorate heroes‚ as it tells of enemies uniting in death. The poem is a tribute to the masses of soldiers who died in the
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AWARENESS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY ORAL EXAMINATION BEACH BURIAL KENNETH SLESSOR Softly and Humbly to the Gulf of Arabs‚The convoys of dead sailors come; At night they sway and wander in the waters far under‚But morning rolls them in the foam. Between the sob and clubbing of the gunfire Someone‚ it seems‚ has time for this‚To pluck them from the shallows and bury them in burrows And tread the sand upon their nakedness;And each cross‚ the driven stake of tidewood‚Bears the last signature
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Kenneth Slessor wrote the poem Beach Burial whilst he completed his occupation as the official Australian Correspondent in the Middle East. Due to Slessor ’s observations of the war at close quarters he soon learnt about the horrific horrors of war. During Slessor ’s stay in El Alamein which is a small village found on the Egypt Mediterranean coast he wrote the poem to describe the realities of war and what realistically happens after heroes are killed. Kenneth Slessor has used imagery and various
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Kenneth Slessor - Beach Burial The title of the poem‚ ’Beach Burial’‚ has an ironic slant‚ as beaches are commonly associated with life and pleasure. Instead‚ the poem consists of the opposite: death and sorrow. Similarly‚ the poem first two stanzas include low‚ soft sounds‚ such as "softly"‚ "humbly"‚ "convoys" and "rolls"‚ with the rhythm and alliteration of "swaying and wandering"‚ which present a calm‚ soothing tone. However‚ this soothing calm is more of a grief‚ as illustrated by the onomatopoeia
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How do Frost and Slessor convey their ideas in their respective poems‚ “The Road Not Taken” and “Beach Burial”? “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a first person narrative tale of a monumental moment in the author’s life. He is faced between the choice of a moment and a lifetime manifested in his poem. Walking down a rural road the narrator encounters a point on his travel that diverges into two separate similar paths. In Robert Frost’s poem
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‘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
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Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971) is famous for his poetry‚ and in such‚ has become one of Australia’s leading poets. He is known notably for the engagement with modernist influences into Australian poetry and his dismissive attitude towards bush balladists‚ including the likes of Banjo Patterson. His use of a modernist influence is an attempt to relate life as it is ‘really’ experienced and to describe the environment as the mind perceives it to be‚ as opposed to the preexisting ideas of bushland Australia
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your country‚ yet receive inhumane like treatment. The theme in “Beach Burial”‚ by Kenneth Slessor‚ is the pointlessness of war. The two poems are very similar‚ yet very different‚ in meaning and tone‚ through their subjects‚ themes‚ techniques and structure. Both poems relate to the same post-war event; bringing the corpses of soldiers back from war. However‚ in “Homecoming” the corpses are of friendly soldiers‚ and in “Beach burial” the corpses are of enemy soldiers. Both poems also show how pointless
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Poem 1: Beach burial Kenneth Slessor wrote the poem Beach Burial whilst he completed his occupation as the official Australian Correspondent in the Middle East. Due to Slessors observations of the war at close quarters he soon learnt about the horrific horrors of war. During Slessor’s stay in El Alamein a small village found on the Egypt Mediterranean coast he wrote the poem to describe the realities of war and what realistically happens after heroes are killed. Kenneth Slessor has used imagery
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