that he so frequentlydisgraced his family with.The main ideas of this poem is the constant comparison between the cold, formal aspect ofEngland to the harsh, laid back way of Australia, which is still a commonly perceived way that isseen today. In the first stanza the line ‘backtracks in the summer haze’ gives the instant idea ofthe Australian landscape that shows Wright’s direct idea of what she distinguishes this as. This isjust the first in a numerous amount of lines that account for the typical view of Australia. There isalso a strong sense that Australia is the favoured compared to that of England, not just by theRemittance Man but in Particular through the writing Wright’s opinion seems clear, which is alsojustified in her other Australian poems. Though England seems to have no real qualities in thispoem there is also subtle criticism to the refined English culture that Australians ironically arerenound to be the complete opposite in manner and in the social ettiquette that exists strongly inEngland. However once the English aspect is left behind The Remittance Man abandons his old life and isreleased from the formal ties he hated so much. The ‘blind-drunk sprees’ were in the past and the‘track to escape to nowhere’ was everything that Australia could offer him. Yet Wright stillcleverly intervenes with his memories of shame that presented the English ‘pale stalk of a wench’which was replaced by ‘black Mary’s eyes’ the indication of an Aboriginal. The constant contrastof the two opposites is referred to throughout the entire poem showing the powerful idea thatWright is putting to her readers. The images of the landscape are also one of Wright’s strongpassions that she refers to countlessly particularly the Australian landscape. All of Wright’sAustralian poems reflect the heritage and nature that is of Australia, there is also the use of thepa...
