Week 4

Week 4 already, and hasn’t it gone fast. I feel like I am in a speeding train and each station it passes is a week. 4 down not much to go. This would be funny if a ethnic voice read this out like in the train stations so you can’t understand what they are saying. Well at least I know I can have a laugh at them because my grandparents have a heavy Maltese accent.

In the tutorial we looked at Judith Wright’s the Cycads. Firstly it is interesting to note that a poet would write about a tree, I guess it inspired her. Anyway this tree symbols everlasting and wisdom. Cycads are old trees and are always present despite the changing environment. It is the only sense of normality in a ever changing environment, as if it is saying that it is not going to be restricted to what human interaction wishes to shape it, unless of course humans bring in machinery to dig it out. In the poem the Cycad is a metaphor for loneliness. The birds’ presence is the changing society and shows the contrast of creatures and the trees.

The other poem we looked at by Judith Wright is Gum Tree Stripping. This I felt was a less intense poem but more of a subdued and innocent poem. I got the message that wisdom lies outside the word that appearance is not all and there is a secret beauty within. I also got the sense of ignorance, inner beauty, uniqueness and acceptance.