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Masculinity In Murray's Poem 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow'

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Correspondingly, Murray’s poem ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’ likewise supports what Nick Enright is trying to bring forward, the drastic issues associated with ‘masculinity’ such as death. The tragic death of Tracey Warner was the social attitude of praising masculinities fault. The deceiving social attitude that men have to be masculine or in someway, express ‘masculinity' is being praised by the majority of the male gender in a capitalist society. The societal expectations of the male gender is a male is considered not masculine if he weeps true emotions, especially in public. As crying is a conventionalised sign of weakness especially if it’s a man weeping, but Murray disapproves this point by justifying to the audience that if a man

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