Flexmore Hudson Visual Language

Texts can be utilised as a way for composers to create sense of visual imagery for an audience allowing them to have greater understanding of the experiences an individual goes through to create interest by using distinctively visual language. This use of language enables an audience to build a connection with the characters in the text and creates a sense of empathy. In two of Henry Lawson’s short stories “The Drovers Wife” and “In a Dry Season” and Flexmore Hudson’s poem “Drought”, we as an audience are presented with this visual language which gives us a better insight into the characters’ lives. They carry through themes of isolation and hardship that are used as a way to evoke our emotions.
Short story composer, Henry Lawson, uses his …show more content…
This interests the audience as they begin to understand the difficulty of living in the bush ad how death is seen as an escape from the harshness of it all and is welcomed with open arms. This creates a small chance for the audience to laugh even when they think they shouldn’t thus to make it dark humour. Irony is evident in the story with lines such as “I thought he was mad and was about to attack the train, but he wasn’t; he was only killing a snake.” By using this type of tone, it suggests to the audience that the persona sees killing a snake as such a normal thing to do and is then calm about it. This also suggests that he believes choosing to live in the bush would have to make a person ’mad’. The isolation is heavily emphasised with the emotive language in the line “He travels for a day and night without a bite to eat, and, on arrival, he finds that the station is eighty or a hundred miles away”. This shows to the audience the willingness that these men have to work and how far they travel but once reaching that stop they are told they must go even further. The audience can have sympathy towards tem at this point as they begin to be drawn in by their …show more content…
This poem also uses the themes of hardship and isolation so they are written with such descriptive language that just draws the audience in. The intensity of this heat can be felt in the highly descriptive line “The children sad listlessly over the desks with bloodless faces oozing sweat that is sipped by the stinging flies”. This creates this image within the audiences mind of these children that are just lifeless and worn out that are struggling to even lift their heads from the desks as the harshness of this outback sun sucks the life out of them. This also emphasise the isolation as they not able to access such privileges such as air-cons and fans. The line “And although I love the desert, I have found myself dreaming” gives the audience this understanding that this weather is secluded to the outback and that the feeling of longing to be somewhere else is not frowned upon. This also provides the image of isolation as he refers to as a desert with that usually being considered a large place of emptiness. Hudson effectively achieved the portrayal of isolation and hardship to the audience by the choice of his language and the