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Read the poem below and it talks about the amazing variety of landscape and climate in Australia. Can you see any references to natural disasters?
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Read the poem below and it talks about the amazing variety of landscape and climate in Australia. Can you see any references to natural disasters?
I Love a Sunburnt Country By Dorothea MacKellar written in 1908 The love of field and coppice Of green and shaded lanes, Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in your veins. Strong love of grey-blue distance, Brown streams and soft, dim skies I know, but cannot share it, My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! The stark white ring-barked forests, All tragic to the moon, The sapphire-misted mountains, The hot gold hush of noon, Green tangle of the brushes Where lithe lianas coil, And orchids deck the tree-tops, And ferns the warm dark soil. Core of my heart, my country! Her pitiless blue sky, When, sick at heart, around us We see the cattle die But then the grey clouds gather, And we can bless again The drumming of an army, The steady soaking rain. Core of my heart, my country! Land of the rainbow gold, For flood and fire and famine She pays us back threefold. Over the thirsty paddocks, Watch, after many days, The filmy veil of greenness That thickens as we gaze … An opal-hearted country, A wilful, lavish land All you who have not loved her, You will not understand though Earth holds many splendours, Wherever I may die, I know to what brown country My homing thoughts will fly. | |
References
- flickr photo by sachman75 http://flickr.com/photos/sacharules/8215790388 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
- flickr photo by Shiny Things http://flickr.com/photos/shinythings/3251847752 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license
- flickr photo by JIGGS IMAGES http://flickr.com/photos/41188800@N00/2694446816 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license
- flickr photo by Raj Deut http://flickr.com/photos/rdeut/3197688735 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
- flickr photo by Christolakis http://flickr.com/photos/43052603@N00/5705993711 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
- flickr photo by buck82 http://flickr.com/photos/buck82/261987796 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license
- flickr photo by John Skewes http://flickr.com/photos/johnske/14428664506 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-ND) license
- flickr photo by richard ling http://flickr.com/photos/rling/3793023077 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
- flickr photo by Australia / New Zealand Travel http://flickr.com/photos/australia-new-zealand-travel/6955288731 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
- flickr photo by iansand http://flickr.com/photos/iansand/72247516 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license