Pastoral and Urban Conflict: A Study of Les Murray’s Poetry

Abstract

Abstract

Poetry played an important part in the founding of Australian literature. During its early history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, therefore, its literary tradition begins with and is linked to the broader tradition of English literature. But by mid nineteenth century, poets started describing the country and its inhabitants. In the twentieth century, there was a social awareness which reflected both in the ideology and literature. Australian literature was marked with unique attributes that gave it an individuality. It was with the global acknowledgement of Les Murray’s poetic genious that the worth and identity of Australian verse was established. The present paper attempts to study the pastoral and urban conflict in the selected poems of Les Murray.