drovers
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APPRECIATION OF THE DROVERS
The subject matter of the poem "The Drovers" by Roland Robinson is about droven cattle. This is no pleasant country. The plains are covered with "whitening grass" the mulga is stunted. The drover's journeys are long across limitless plains, over hills and through dried-up riverbeds. As the light of the day fades away they drove the cattle through the "corroding blood red hills" to the "tanks at the tea tree well".
The theme is the land and the work involved on the land. The theme illustrates just how hard the work is in this harsh land. "With the creak of pack and saddle leather," and "the moan of the herd, with hobble and bell" are just two examples of what the cattle have to go through as well as the humans.
The poet Roland Robinson has used a variety of poetic devices to help describe the long hard working days that are involved in droven cattle.
The metaphor the "blood red hills" is used to describe the land...