AD Hope Australia Essay Example

it was before. This reflects the writer's patriotic view where Australia is the victim here. Australia is next portrayed as a country that is nothing at all, where there are "monotonous tribes from Cairns to Perth" and the five main cities, compared to "five teeming sores. " The people who come to live in Australia boast not of "living" but rather boast of merely "surviving. I believe that the author is trying to put forth a point here that people that move here are rather unwelcome, and that they are "second hand Europeans" that give birth rapidly on these "alien shores. " He sees these people as people for "drain" Australia, a "vast parasite robber-state. " This could be tied in to Australia's history, where it was then Great Britain's style of Exile Island, where dangerous criminals were sent there in exile instead of being sent to prison. In this case, I believe that the author is trying to put forth that these newcomers are like giant leeches that take in all that is good in his country.

His direct reference to patriotism comes in the last two stanza's, where he feels that there are "some like him who turn gladly home" to withdraw from the "lush jungle of modern thought" to seek the "Arabian desert of the human mind. " This to me as seen that the author enjoys retreating from the expansive world and would rather stay in a desert. In that case, all the above detractions that he mentioned are seen as added benefits of being an Australian. The last two lines of the poem are most memorable; he states "The

learned doubt, the chatter of cultured apes” Which is called civilization over there.

It leaves us with an impression of him seeing as Australia as being civilization and the rest of the world just being cultured apes which they merely call civilization without it really being so. This poem shows how A. D Hope feels that one’s identity can be robbed by circumstance like how Australia’s identity was robbed after the arrival of the British. In the end though he feels that due to the arrival of the British which caused Australia’s identity to be robbed, Australia’s identity has become a combination of the best of Australia and the immigrants who have made Australia their home.