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Judith Wright Throughout her poetry Judith Wright repeatedly revisits the common theme of Australia, it's people and it's past and what it means to be Australian. Although sometimes referred to as a "landscape poet", her ideas actually extend far deeper. Poems such as South of My Days and Bullocky suggest that we are ignorant of, and uninterested in our past and the pioneers that shaped our country. When she writes, "No one is listening" (South of my Days) she suggests that no one cares about the stories of our past, like those of Old Dan. In Bullocky she raises a seemingly uninteresting pioneer to near Biblical status (calling him and the Bullock team "old Moses, and the slaves") to again show us the wonders of the past buried by our ignorance.
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