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SH1903 Poetry from Different Parts of the World: 2. Geographical and climatic features Australia and Asia Australia is the smallest of the world's cont...

SH1903 Poetry from Different Parts of the World: 2. Geographical and climatic features Australia and Asia Australia is the smallest of the world's continents. It is also the lowest, the flattest, and (apart from Antarctica) the driest. I. The Continent of Australia The highest point in the Australian mainland is Mount Kosciuszko, New South Wales, at 2228 meters above sea level. The lowest point is the dry bed of Lake Eyre, South Australia, which is 15 meters below sea level. The mainland and Tasmania are surrounded by many thousands of small islands and numerous larger ones. Nearly 40 percent of the total coastline length comprises island coastlines. As an island nation, coastlines play an important role in defining national, state, and territory boundaries. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Australia-New_Guinea_(orthographic_projection).svg Nearly 20 percent of Australia's landmass is A. Australia's Features (australia.gov.au., n.d.) classified as desert. As well as having a low average 1. Landmass annual rainfall, rainfall across Australia is also Australia comprises a land area of about 7.692 variable. The rainfall pattern is concentric around the million square kilometers. extensive arid core of the continent, with rainfall Although this is just five (5) percent of the world's intensity high in the tropics and some coastal areas. landmass (149.45 million square kilometers), Climatic zones range from tropical rainforests, Australia is the planet's sixth-largest country after deserts and cool temperature forests to snow-covered Russia, Canada, China, the United States of America, mountains. and Brazil. It is also the only one of the largest six Within this climate, our plants and animals have nations that is entirely surrounded by water. evolved on a geographically isolated continent, Australia's landmass is: through a time of a slowly drying climate, combined  almost as great as that of the United States of with continuing high variability. The uniqueness of America, much of Australia's flora and fauna is thus at least  about 50 percent greater than Europe, and partly due to these features of its climate.  32 times greater than the United Kingdom. 03 Handout 1 *Property of STI  [email protected] Page 1 of 4  SH1903 B. Literary Themes in Australia urged: lift the multi-treasured latch. Writers in Australia during the end of the 18th As well defrost a piece of fillet century have explored themes such as aboriginality, and brave a blood this blood to match. mateship, egalitarianism, democracy, national identity, migration, Australia's unique location and geography, When Francis Bacon wrote that men the complexities of urban living, and the life in the fear death as children fear to go Australian bush (Grishaeva, 2018). into the dark, he dipped his pen Wright (1990) (as stated in Victoriya, 2019) noted in blood as light as ink; he'd show that the themes of migration, aboriginality, national the fretful soul that what might happen identity, and the awesome and awful life in the was quaint as killing a mosquito. Australian bush were still widely explored up to the 20th century. D. About the Author There are also themes recurrent to Australian fiction Peter Porter (1929-2010) due to the country's rich history, and these are the first Australian-born poet Peter Porter moved to England settlement, the country's convict heritage, European in 1951. He is the author of more than 15 collections of inland exploration, pastoralism, conflict with poetry and the editor and translator of several more, Indigenous Australians, patriotism, and war (Rodwell, including Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (1961), The 2013). Automatic Oracle (1987), The Chair of Babel (1992), Dragons in Their Pleasant Palaces (1997), Both Ends C. Sample Poem Against the Middle (1999), Saving from the Wreck (2001), and Better Than God (2009). "Killing a Mosquito" Porter’s work displays a deep knowledge of literary by Peter Porter and social history yet is attuned to contemporary I slap the mozzie on my hand, civilization and current jargon. Alan Brownjohn, the blood is mine, the black its all, reviewing Better Than God for the Times Online, that this one second might befall; identified Porter as a “poet, traveler and social observer,” it can't, but I can understand noting that his manner is “calm, deliberate, sometimes the rule - in whose court is the ball? distinctly grand, emotionally reticent.” What said of it that I should kill it Porter edited The Best Australian Poetry (2005) and since late or soon I'd have to scratch? Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell (2006) and No password, sesame or millet, translated After Martial (1972), a collection based on the 03 Handout 1 *Property of STI  [email protected] Page 2 of 4  SH1903 poems of the Latin poet Martial. continent, is subject overall to the world’s widest Porter was a writer-in-residence at universities in climatic extremes, and, consequently, produces the most both Australia and England. He received the Queen’s varied forms of vegetation and animal life on Earth. In Gold Medal for Poetry, the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, addition, the peoples of Asia have established the widest the Duff Cooper Prize, and the 1990 Gold Medal of the variety of human adaptation found on any of the Australian Literary Society. He died in 2010. continents. II. The Continent of Asia B. Literary Themes in Southeast Asia Since Asia is the world's largest continent and covers a variety of culture and tradition, this discussion will only narrow to the literature of Southeast Asia. The literature of Southeast Asia can be divided into two (2) ways: from the point of view of its classical literature, and from its vernacular literature. The classical literature of Southeast Asia could be divided into (1) the Sanskrit region of Cambodia and Indonesia; (2) the region of Burma, and the (3) Chinese Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asia_(orthographic_projection).svg region of Vietnam. On the other hand, the vernacular literature can be divided into (1) Burma; (2) Thailand, A. Asia's Land Features (Narasimhan et al., 2019) Laos, and Cambodia; (3) Vietnam; (4) Malaysia and Asia is the world's largest and most diverse Indonesia; and (5) the Philippines (Rawson et al., 2018). continent. The term "Asia" is more of a geographic term According to Pierce (2015), the prevalent themes in than a homogenous continent due to the location of the Southeast Asian literature are politics and social regions it encompasses. structure, nationalism, duty and honor, family and filial The total area of Asia, including Asian Russia (with piety, morality and etiquette, spirituality and philosophy, the Caucasian isthmus) but excluding the island of New beauty of nature, and traditions and cultural values. The Guinea, amounts to some 17,226,200 square miles said themes are anchored to several Southeast Asian (44,614,000 square kilometers), roughly one-third of the religions, philosophies, and belief systems. land surface of Earth. Asia has both the highest and the lowest points on the surface of Earth, has the longest coastline of any 03 Handout 1 *Property of STI  [email protected] Page 3 of 4  SH1903 C. Sample Poem various genres. He is an Ananchanok Poetry Award recipient (munyori.org., n.d.). "Yellow or Red" by Preeyakit Buranasin References: Australian Government (n.d.). The Australian continent. You asked me if I am yellow or red. https://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/the-australian- After a long pause, I finally said: continent. “Well, sir. It’s rather a short allowance Eastlit.com. (2013, August 02). Yellow or red. https://www.eastlit.com/eastlit- To define my entire existence august-2013/eastlit-august-2013-content/preeyakit-buranasin-yellow-or- red/. Into one particular shade of colour. Do I have to be one or the other? Grishaeva, E. (2018). Civilian Trend in the Australian Literature as a Resource of National Moral Values. Journal of Siberian Federal University. He who assigns himself only to one Humanities & Social Sciences, 11 (1), 72. Denies himself the right to other ones. Narasimhan, C., Chandrasekhar, S., Ryabchikov, A., Chapman, G., Ferdinand, L., So now let me give my answer to you: Owen., L., Pannell, C. (2019, January 16). Asia. In Encyclopaedia I’m both, the combination of the two. Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/place/Asia. However, that is not all. I am more. Munyori.org. (n.d.). Poems by Preeyakit Buranasin. I’m not confined to one or two. I’ve all https://munyori.org/poetry/poems-by-preeyakit-buranasin/. The spectrum of the beautiful rainbow Pierce, T. (2015). Common themes in Asian literature. To choose from, so much at my disposal. https://englishwithmrspierce.com/2015/09/14/common-themes-in-asian- I paint myself with so many colours. literature/. Ergo, I’m uniquely spectacular. Porter, P. (n.d.). Killing a mosquito. https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/porter- With so much paint, I’m distinguishable. peter/killing-a-mosquito-0322004. I’m, after all, an individual. Rawson, P., Aung, M., Maceda, J., Brandon, J., Dixon, L., Gorlinski, V., Kuiper, K. … Young, G., (2018, December 20). Southeast Asia. In Encyclopaedia D. About the Author Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/art/Southeast-Asian- arts/Literature. Preeyakit Buranasin, writer on weekdays and Rodwell, G. (2013). Whose history? engaging history students through historical English teacher on weekends, has a bachelor’s degree in fiction. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press. English and a master’s in English Literature. During his Victoriya, T. (2019). From Routes to Roots: A Study of Selected Poems of Judith studies, he started writing both in prose and poetry, in Wright. Language in India; 19, 447. 03 Handout 1 *Property of STI  [email protected] Page 4 of 4