Beach Burial - Kenneth Slessor
Beginning of paper
AWARENESS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY ORAL EXAMINATION
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 pluc ....
Middle of paper
.... and poignant poem Beach burial is a poem concerned with raising the awareness of national identity. Now I found this hard to believe at first – For me to be able to use this poem, (as it has been my one of my favourites for years) I though that for it to have ANYTHING to do with national identity I would have had to use my creative ability to dissect and warp aspects of the poem that COULD have something to do with national identity if the poet had actually CHOSEN to write about national iden ....
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Word count: 1267
Page count: 5 (approximately 250 words per page)
