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R S Adams Jr

  • Last seen on Dec 3 8:35 AM 2007. Member since February 14, 2006.
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  • on Lost by A B Banjo Paterson, on June 18

    Banjo is always a winner...

    ...he wrote Waltzing matilda. so he is known world wide. I have seen a film of this particular poem and it is a real tragic story. Banjo loved the Aussie bush and he has written many stories but this is probably one of the saddest.

    Such an artist, with such talent, like Rembrandt to painting, so is Paterson to poetry.

    I like to learn his poems verbatim and say them to myself when I am driving along the Aussie roads.

  • This is a bloody beauty, mate...

    Strike me pink, I really love this and I know it off by heart. I say it to myself when I have a long drive and I can see the country that Clancy loved, right outside my car window. True blue Australia.

    Thank you, Banjo for one of the rippers of literature.

  • interesting, unique, challenging

    Harpur moves from quiet to noise and back again in a poetry journey. He takes me on this journey is the stillness of his restful sky, as he paints a strange picture of nature. It appears a troubled one, not at rest, and it belies the quiet beginning. Grasshoppers, ants and locusts are more fiends of the Bible than friends of the Australian landscape. I do not understand how he can find it "easeful to lie."

    Nevertheless, the poem is well written with perfect metre and excellent rhyme. I find it interesting, yet disturbing in its emotion. It therefore has an impact, but a disturbing one, not a restful one as Harpur appears to enjoy.

  • well written.

    Twelve lines of rhyming couplet,easy to read, suggest that Mrs Litte was a 'worthy Christian." She would strengthen my faith, while her own soul awaits eternal glory.

    Such a serious note and such responsibility Hannah More lays upon me, the reader.

    This tribute poem, written in such classical, personal style, has a deep theme of emotion in Christian ideal and personal sacrifice.

    To a believer, this poem would have great impact; to a non- Christian it would seem irrelevant to their personal need. It would have more impact if it did not give excuses for her possiblity of living in vain. Then it would have been more convincing.

    I enjoyed the poem and I think it has a lot of moral teaching and religious significance, for it shows me how God continues to work throughout the ages.