Robert Gray

Please save my hsc english marks, theyre gonna be so bad oml

Context

Romanticism, Buddhism, Born in Coffs Harbour, moved to sydney, imagist and landscape poet.

Themes in Journey, the North Coast

Journey more important than the destination, detachment from urban life, restorative nature of the natural world

Themes in Flames and Dangling Wire

Lack of responsibility, destruction of nature, mysanthropy, consumerism

Themes in Harbour Dusk

Transcience. immersion in nature, nature reflects inner world

Themes in Byron Bay: Winter

The sublime, grandiose of nature, awe and reverence

Themes in Description of a Walk

Immersion in nature, spiritual nourishment, the sublime

Themes in 24 Poems

Dualities and seassons, spiritual renewal and enlightenment, transcience, the sublime.

Journey the North Coast form

Free Verse

Flames and Dangling Wire form

15 quatrains

Harbour Dusk form

loosened form

Byron Bay: Winter form

Ballad, half-rhyme full-rhyme

Description of a Walk form

11 quatrains2

24 poems form

24 haiku-adjacent stanzas

Journey the north coast evidence

Free verse, “sunlight rotating off the drab carpet”, “The trains shadow, like a bird’s, / flees on the blue and silver paddocks”, “a red bank..over dark creeks… blackened tree trunks… white eucalyptus”

Flames and Dangling Wire Evidence

15 quatrains,. “the smoke of different fires in a row, like fingers spread”, “always burning…demon with the long barge pole”, “knowing all that he does about us, how can he avoid a hatred of man?”

Harbour Dusk evidence

loosened form (4 quatrains) “stone parapet’s fading life”, “oily aubergine dark… part of the city, to our left, was fruit shop bright”,

Byron Bay: Winter evidence

Ballad: 4 stanzas, “blue… claret…gray”, “the sunlit town’s strewn like petals; its lighthouse a tiny pawn”, “the feeling that I wear great wings”

Description of a Walk evidence

Ballad, “brazil nut kernel, an unfired pot”, “what it was all for, I forgot”, “cicada’s schekel sound”

24 poems evidence

haiku-esque stanzas, “grass moves with the water, violin bows adagio…the ocean’s single string”, “she will vanish in that light”