In ‘The bush undertaker’, Lawson creates distinctive images depicting how the isolated living in the harsh environment of the Australian outback has effected the bushmen. Lawson introduces the harsh environment by alliteration and negative connotations, ‘broiling’ and ‘barren’ ultimately describing the bushmen’s home and suggest the dangers of living in a remote area. The bushmen’s discovery of ‘Brummy’s corpse’ exemplifies one of the danger of the living in the bush. In “shrivelled eyes seemed to peer up at him from under the blackened wrists.” and “the flesh sounded like leather, Lawson establishes a visual and auditory imagery describing the disturbing appearancee of the corpse. The simile further connects the corpse to a daily life highlighting …show more content…
The Drover’s wife is characterised as a strong, protective mother who has the ability to fight against the disasters of the Australian bush. Lawson’s use of alliteration in “The bush in horizon.. no undergrowth, nothing to relieve the eye…nineteen miles to the nearest..” emphasises the isolation of the drover’s wife from the rest of the world. The distinctive visual creates a sense of loneliness and remoteness of living in the bush. ’A green sapling club laid in readiness on the dresser by her side, together with her sewing basket and copy of the young ladies journal.’ creates an image of the Drover’s wife sitting to watch the snake all night with her journal. The journal symbolises her femininity thats exist within her, juxtaposing to the club where it symbolises what she needs to do to live in the bush, displaying her powerful masculine characteristic. Lawson’s choices of verbs create a powerful distinctively visual image in ‘The Drover’s wife’. The use of ‘snatches’, when she hits the snake creates a images of courage and immediacy in the responders mind and the word ‘darts’ conveys that she has no hesitation in hitting the snake, highlighting her fortitude developed whilst living in the outback. The distinctive image in ‘the Drover’s wife’, clearly displays the harsh environment and what ‘the drover’s wife’ experiences to